Soham
/ˈsəʊ.əm/
"soham" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Soham” is uncommon English (frequency #85,789 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,789
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5973).
Corpus desk
Index EN-soham · Soham · English
Soham · rank #85,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,789
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH solicitous
Nearest frequency peer: solicitous (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Soham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sleepwalk
sleepwalk
14,217 corpus weight
- slipway
slipway
14,215 corpus weight
- Soham
Soham
14,212 corpus weight
- solicitous
solicitous
14,210 corpus weight
- sonofabitch
sonofabitch
14,207 corpus weight
- sopping
sopping
14,206 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Soham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Soham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsəʊ.əm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Soham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Soham is uncommon English at frequency #85,789 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈsəʊ.əm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5973).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Soham, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Old English Sǣgham, from a compound of *sǣġe and hām (“homestead”). The correct English form is Soham, spelled S-O-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5973).
Etymology
Inherited from Old English Sǣgham, from a compound of *sǣġe and hām (“homestead”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.