vegetable soup

noun

"vegetable-soup" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“vegetable soup” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A soup made from a variety of vegetables

Corpus desk

Index EN-vegetable-soup · vegetable soup · English

vegetable soup · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for vegetable soup
PropertyValue
Headwordvegetable soup
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “vegetable soup” in English

vegetable soupranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vegetable soup is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A soup made from a variety of vegetables".

vegetable soup has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is vegetable soup, spelled V-E-G-E-T-A-B-L-E- -S-O-U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    A soup made from a variety of vegetables

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vegetable soup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I made a creamy vegetable soup with carrots, celery, tomatoes, and potatoes.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vegetable soup"?
"vegetable soup" is spelled V-E-G-E-T-A-B-L-E- -S-O-U-P.
What does "vegetable soup" mean?
As a noun, "vegetable soup" means: A soup made from a variety of vegetables
What language does "vegetable soup" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list