sooth
/suːθ/noun
sooth is spelled S-O-O-T-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sooth vs soothe” about 210 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, sooth means “Alternative form of saunth (“type of chutney”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sooth?
| Letters | 5: S-O-O-T-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 sooth?
Sooth appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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 sooth?
- /suːθ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sooth.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sooth
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: soothe.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sooth?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sooth.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: shoot, shoto.
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 sooth
- soother comparative
- soothest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sooth mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of saunth (“type of chutney”).
- 2
archaicTruth.
- 3
obsoleteAugury; prognostication.
- 4
obsoleteBlandishment; cajolery.
- 5
obsoleteReality; fact.
adjective
- 1
archaicTrue.
- 2
obsoletePleasing; delightful; sweet.
adverb
- 1
archaicIn truth; indeed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sooth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense truth:
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 sooth come from?
From Middle English sooth, from Old English sōþ (“truth; true, actual, real”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþ, from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz (“truth; true”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts, *h₁s-ont- (“being, existence, real, true”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Akin to Old Saxon sōþ (“true”), Old High German sand (“true”), Old Norse sannr (“true”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja, “truth”), Old English synn (“sin, guilt"; literally, "being the one guilty”). More at sin. See also soothe, derived from the same Old English word.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).