Sofi
"sofi" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sofi” is uncommon English (frequency #59,714 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,714
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of Sufi.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sofi · Sofi · English
Sofi · rank #59,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,714
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sog
Nearest frequency peer: sog (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Sofi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Smedley
Smedley
40,291 corpus weight
- smol
smol
40,290 corpus weight
- Smollett
Smollett
40,289 corpus weight
- Sofi
Sofi
40,287 corpus weight
- sog
sog
40,286 corpus weight
- sotto
sotto
40,285 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sofi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sofi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sofi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sofi is uncommon English at frequency #59,714 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Sofi in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Sofi, spelled S-O-F-I.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of Sufi.
- 2Archaic spelling of Safavi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sofi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The devout Mahometans charge the Sofis with atheism; while the latter not only deny the accusation, but pretend to hold intercourse with God: they assemble at night, and perform the exercises of turning round, jumping and shouting, till they drop down from weakness and exhaustion.
He called himself a Safavi, from Safi, an ancestor illustrious for piety; and hence to contemporary Europe he was known as the Sofi.
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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