soy
[soj]
The verdict
“soy” is uncommon German (frequency #77,335 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,335
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser
Corpus desk
Index DE-soy · soy · German
soy · rank #77,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,335
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sozialarbeite…
Nearest frequency peer: Sozialarbeitern (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „soy“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- slime
slime
22,671 corpus weight
- soy
soy
22,666 corpus weight
- Sozialarbei…
Sozialarbeitern
22,665 corpus weight
- soziologisch
soziologisch
22,663 corpus weight
- Spaichingen
Spaichingen
22,662 corpus weight
- Spangen
Spangen
22,661 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „soy“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „soy“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
soy is uncommon German at frequency #77,335 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [soj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser".
soy has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is soy, spelled S-O-Y.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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