sociale

/\sɔ.sjal\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#797

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

sociale is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de social. Pronounced \sɔ.sjal\. It ranks #797 in French word frequency. Often confused with socle and société.

Key facts for sociale
PropertyValue
Headwordsociale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sɔ.sjal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#797
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sociale is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.sjal\. Corpus data places it at rank #797 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de social.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sociale, with forms such as "osciale", "scoiale", and "socaile". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "socle", "société", "sociaux", 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 sociale, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de social.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osciale,scoiale,socaile,socciale,sociael,socialle,socilae,soicale,ssociale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sociale

Misspelling Variants of "sociale"

osciale7scoiale7socaile7socciale8sociael7socialle8socilae7soicale7
Misspelling Variants of "sociale"

Frequency rank: #797 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sociale"?
"sociale" is spelled S-O-C-I-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.sjal\.
What does "sociale" mean?
As an adj, "sociale" means: Féminin singulier de social.
What words are commonly confused with "sociale"?
"sociale" is commonly confused with "socle", "société", "sociaux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sociale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sociale" is \sɔ.sjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sociale" come from?
"sociale" 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.