soy

/[soj]/ verb

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,335

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

soy is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser Pronounced [soj].

Key facts for soy
PropertyValue
Headwordsoy
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[soj]
Letters3
Frequency rank#77,335
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of soy in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for soy is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soj]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,335 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for soy in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is soy, spelled S-O-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser

Frequency rank: #77,335 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soy"?
"soy" is spelled S-O-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [soj].
What does "soy" mean?
As a verb, "soy" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ser
How do you pronounce "soy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soy" is [soj]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soy" come from?
"soy" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.