soup
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "soup", 4-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "soup" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "soup" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
soup is aEnglishnoun. It means: Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture. Pronounced /suːp/. It ranks #5,629 in English word frequency. Often confused with SP and su.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /suːp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for soup is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /suːp/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,629 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for soup, with forms such as "osup", "sopu", and "soupp". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SP", "su", "sun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from t… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is soup, spelled S-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
- 2Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
- 3Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
- 4Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 5Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 6Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 7Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 8Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 9Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 10Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 11Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 12Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Etymology
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osup,sopu,soupp,ssoup,suop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soup
Misspelling Variants of "soup"
Frequency rank: #5,629 in English
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