soa
\ˈsɔa\
The verdict
“soa” is uncommon French (frequency #56,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pli (naturel), ondulation, ride.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soa · soa · French
soa · rank #56,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,931
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sme
Nearest frequency peer: sme (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « soa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- slot
slot
43,073 corpus weight
- sma
sma
43,072 corpus weight
- sme
sme
43,071 corpus weight
- soa
soa
43,070 corpus weight
- Sollers
Sollers
43,069 corpus weight
- sopranos
sopranos
43,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɔa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soa is uncommon French at frequency #56,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɔa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pli (naturel), ondulation, ride.".
soa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soa, spelled S-O-A.
Definition
- 1Pli (naturel), ondulation, ride.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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