soupy
/ˈsuːpi/
"soupy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soupy” is uncommon English (frequency #68,655 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,655
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling soup; creamy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soupy · soupy · English
soupy · rank #68,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,655
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Soraya
Nearest frequency peer: Soraya (-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 “soupy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- socked
socked
31,351 corpus weight
- soled
soled
31,349 corpus weight
- Soraya
Soraya
31,347 corpus weight
- soupy
soupy
31,346 corpus weight
- splashy
splashy
31,344 corpus weight
- starched
starched
31,342 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soupy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsuːpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soupy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soupy is uncommon English at frequency #68,655 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsuːpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for soupy in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English soupi, suppy, equivalent to soup + -y. The correct English form is soupy, spelled S-O-U-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling soup; creamy.
- 2Extravagantly sentimental; slushy.
Etymology
From Middle English soupi, suppy, equivalent to soup + -y.
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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