sophomore
/ˈsɑf.mɔɹ/adjective, noun
sophomore is spelled S-O-P-H-O-M-O-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is sophmore: about 1,190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Sophomore is an adjective meaning “The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high…”.
How many letters and syllables are in sophomore?
| Letters | 9: S-O-P-H-O-M-O-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sophmore, about 1,190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell sophomore?
Sophomore is spelled S-O-P-H-O-M-O-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for sophomore in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sophomore?
Sophomore appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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 sophomore?
- UK /ˈsɒf.ə.mɔː/
- US /ˈsɑf.mɔɹ/
- US /ˈsɔf.mɔɹ/
Sophomore has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sophomore.wav, En-us-sophomore.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Ajshul-sophomore.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sophomore
- sophomores plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sophomore mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
USThe second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.
The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.
- 2
Sophomoric.
noun
- 1
USA second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.
- 2
USA three-year-old horse.
The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate sophomore?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of sophomore: soph.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sophomore in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | zweiter, Nachfolger- , Student im zweiten Jahr, Drittsemester, Viertsemester |
| Portuguese | secundanista, secundarista |
| French | étudiant de deuxième année, étudiante de deuxième année |
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.