soylent
"soylent" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soylent” is uncommon English (frequency #56,458 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,458
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soylent · soylent · English
soylent · rank #56,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,458
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soothed
Nearest frequency peer: soothed (-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 “soylent”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- somthing
somthing
43,546 corpus weight
- sonically
sonically
43,545 corpus weight
- soothed
soothed
43,544 corpus weight
- soylent
soylent
43,543 corpus weight
- spats
spats
43,542 corpus weight
- specious
specious
43,541 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soylent” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soylent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soylent” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soylent is uncommon English at frequency #56,458 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for soylent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room! The correct English form is soylent, spelled S-O-Y-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soylent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The soylent steaks were sitting like lead in his stomach and twice he had to go back to the dark and miserable toilet in the rear of the building.
It is decided that the product will be composed of three elements — soylent green, red, and blue. Each pound of the final product must contain at least 2000 calories of energy and 1000 units of vitamins.
Etymology
Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
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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