soba
\so.ba\
The verdict
“soba” is uncommon French (frequency #85,278 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,278
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de nouilles fines japonaises à base de farine de sarrasin que l’on mange dans un sobaya.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soba · soba · French
soba · rank #85,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,278
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH smack
Nearest frequency peer: smack (-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 « soba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- signifiante
signifiante
14,727 corpus weight
- smack
smack
14,724 corpus weight
- soba
soba
14,723 corpus weight
- socia
socia
14,722 corpus weight
- soignera
soignera
14,720 corpus weight
- someday
someday
14,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soba is uncommon French at frequency #85,278 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de nouilles fines japonaises à base de farine de sarrasin que l’on mange dans un sobaya.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for soba, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is soba, spelled S-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Variété de nouilles fines japonaises à base de farine de sarrasin que l’on mange dans un sobaya.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais assise à la place du fond où, après un verre de saké froid accompagné de boulettes de konnyaku, je dégustais des soba aux taros sauce curry – la spécialité de l’établissement – quand soudain, la première phrase m’est venue à l’esprit.
Son plan était d’attendre que Noa sorte du bureau pour aller déjeuner au sobaya de l’autre côté de la rue. À chaque jour de la semaine son restaurant, et le mercredi, Noa mangeait un plat simple de nouilles soba.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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