soufflé
/ˈsuːfleɪ/
"souffle" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soufflé” is uncommon English (frequency #70,275 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,275
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
Corpus desk
Index EN-souffle · soufflé · English
soufflé · rank #70,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,275
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sonorous
Nearest frequency peer: sonorous (-1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “soufflé”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sonorous
sonorous
29,727 corpus weight
- soufflé
soufflé
29,726 corpus weight
- spammer
spammer
29,724 corpus weight
- spanky
spanky
29,723 corpus weight
- sphagnum
sphagnum
29,720 corpus weight
- spink
spink
29,719 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soufflé” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soufflé |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsuːfleɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soufflé” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soufflé is uncommon English at frequency #70,275 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsuːfleɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for soufflé in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from French soufflé, from souffler (“to puff”). The correct English form is soufflé, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-É.
Definition
- 1A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soufflé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French soufflé, from souffler (“to puff”).
This word in other languages
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.
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