sobriquet
/ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/
"sobriquet" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sobriquet” is uncommon English (frequency #83,766 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,766
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobriquet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sobriquet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sobriquet is uncommon English at frequency #83,766 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sobriquet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French sobriquet (“nickname”), from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin”). The correct English form is sobriquet, spelled S-O-B-R-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive.
Etymology
Borrowed from French sobriquet (“nickname”), from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin”).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sobriquet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-O-B-R-I-Q-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.