Soter
adjective
Soter is an adjective meaning “An honorific epithet for rulers, heroes, and gods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Soter mean?
adjective
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An honorific epithet for rulers, heroes, and gods.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Soter?
Soter 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).
How common is Soter?
Soter appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Soter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense honorific epithet:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Sôter |
| Spanish | Sóter |
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 Soter come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σωτήρ (sōtḗr).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).