social

\sɔ.sjal\

/\sɔ.sjal\/ adj

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The verdict

“social” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#760
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une société, une communauté, une collectivité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-social · social · French

social · rank #760 · 8 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #760
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH réalité

Nearest frequency peer: réalité (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « social »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « social » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

social vs Sofia
50% similar
social vs Sonia
50% similar
social vs Soral
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « social »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).socialse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réalité » (#759), « sorte » (#761), « prise » (#758). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « social » est au #760. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around social (IPA \sɔ.sjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #760 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for social, with forms such as "oscial", "scoial", and "socail". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is social, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Au moment des luttes politiques, les électeurs du Léon, encadrés par leurs prêtres, font, grâce à leur discipline, échec aux aspirations sociales des populations citadines.
  2. Chez les possédants, l’agitation sociale réveille une vieille hantise particulièrement vivace chez les bourgeois français : la peur de l'ouvrier.

This word in other languages

social(English)social(Español)sozial(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oscial
  • scoial
  • socail
  • soccial
  • sociall
  • socila
  • soical
  • ssocial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of social - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

oscial2scoial2socail2soccial1sociall1socila2soical2ssocial1
Edit distance from "social"

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.

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 adjective, "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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "social", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

entrée#752départ#769bureau#750soient#777

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

moyenne8 variantspassage8 variantsSoleil8 variantsmariage8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list