social

/\sɔ.sjal\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#760

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

social is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à une société, une communauté, une collectivité. Pronounced \sɔ.sjal\. It ranks #760 in French word frequency. Often confused with Sofia and Sonia.

Key facts for social
PropertyValue
Headwordsocial
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sɔ.sjal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#760
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of social in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for social is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.sjal\. Corpus data places it at rank #760 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for social, with forms such as "oscial", "scoial", and "socail". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Sofia", "Sonia", "Soral", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 French form is social, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à une société, une communauté, une collectivité.
  2. 2
    Qui se préoccupe du fonctionnement de la société et de ses conséquences.
  3. 3
    Caractéristique de la vie en société, par opposition à l'état naturel.
  4. 4
    Qui vit en société.
  5. 5
    Qualifie une plante qui forme des peuplements denses.
  6. 6
    Relatif aux sociétés commerciales, industrielles, financières.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oscial,scoial,socail,soccial,sociall,socila,soical,ssocial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for social

Misspelling Variants of "social"

oscial6scoial6socail6soccial7sociall7socila6soical6ssocial7
Misspelling Variants of "social"

Frequency rank: #760 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "social"?
"social" is spelled S-O-C-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.sjal\.
What does "social" mean?
As an adj, "social" means: Relatif à une société, une communauté, une collectivité.
What words are commonly confused with "social"?
"social" is commonly confused with "Sofia", "Sonia", "Soral". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "social"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "social" is \sɔ.sjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "social" come from?
"social" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.