Sotho
/ˈsutu/noun
Sotho is a noun meaning “A Mosotho (“person”); a member of the Basotho (“people”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-T-H-O, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Sotho mean?
noun
- 1
A Mosotho (“person”); a member of the Basotho (“people”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Sotho?
- /ˈsutu/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Sotho
- Sutho
- Soto
- Suto
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Sotho?
Sotho appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th 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).
Where does Sotho come from?
From Sotho, from Sotho -sotho, from Sotho motho.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).