# sone vs soy

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sone
*noun · IPA /soʊn/ · frequency rank #48,495*
a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing

### soy
*noun · IPA /sɔɪ/ · frequency rank #12,504*
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sone-vs-soy