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soar

/soɹ/verb, noun

soar is spelled S-O-A-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “soar vs sore” about 2,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, soar means “To fly high with little effort, like a bird” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in soar?

Letters4: S-O-A-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is soar?

Soar appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce soar?

  • UK /sɔː/
  • British /soː/
  • US /soɹ/

Soar has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sore.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with soar

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

soar vs sore2,400 G

Sounds like: saw, sore (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with soar?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as soar from its last stressed vowel (/oɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rosa, sora.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of soar

  • soars present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • soaring participle, present
  • soared participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does soar mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To fly high with little effort, like a bird.

  2. 2

    To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.

  3. 3

    To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.

  4. 4

    To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.

    The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.

  5. 5

    To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

  6. 6

    To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of soaring.

  2. 2

    An upward flight.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Soar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchplaner (to fly aloft with little effort), monter, s'élever (to mount upward on wings), grimper en flèche, monter en flèche (to rise rapidly or high), essor (act of soaring)
Germanschweben (to fly aloft with little effort), hochfliegen (to mount upward on wings), hochschnellen, aufstreben, hochragen (to rise rapidly or high), gleiten (to fly by means of a glider)
Portuguesepairar, planar (to fly aloft with little effort), pairada (act of soaring)
Spanishplanear (to fly aloft with little effort), elevarse (to mount upward on wings), estar por las nubes, ponerse por las nubes, dispararse (to rise rapidly or high), planar (to fly by means of a glider)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does soar come from?

From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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