sofer
[soˈfeɾ]
The verdict
“sofer” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Escriba ritual, versado en los requisitos que la Halajá o ley religiosa judía prescribe para la copia de los libros sagrados en la forma adecuada para el uso en la oración. Además de los rollos de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sofer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [soˈfeɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sofer” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sofer is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soˈfeɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Escriba ritual, versado en los requisitos que la Halajá o ley religiosa judía prescribe para la copia de los libros sagrados en la forma adecuada para el uso en la oración. Además de los rollos de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for sofer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sofer, spelled S-O-F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Escriba ritual, versado en los requisitos que la Halajá o ley religiosa judía prescribe para la copia de los libros sagrados en la forma adecuada para el uso en la oración. Además de los rollos de la Torá, los documentos que deben redactarse por un sofer de la forma prescrita incluyen los pergaminos usados en las filacterias, las mezuzot y los guetim o actas de divorcio.
This word in other languages
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Using “sofer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-O-F-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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