soft
\sɔft\
The verdict
“soft” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,057
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peu violent, doux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soft · soft · French
soft · rank #12,057 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,057
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slip
Nearest frequency peer: slip (-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 « soft »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- situer
situer
87,947 corpus weight
- sketch
sketch
87,946 corpus weight
- slip
slip
87,945 corpus weight
- soft
soft
87,944 corpus weight
- soja
soja
87,943 corpus weight
- sorcières
sorcières
87,942 corpus weight
What this shows « soft » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔft\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soft »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around soft (IPA \sɔft\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,057 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for soft, with forms such as "osft", "sfot", and "sofft". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "son", "sol", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soft, spelled S-O-F-T.
Definition
- 1Peu violent, doux.
- 2Dans le domaine de la sexualité, désigne des relations sexuelles peu poussées.
- 3Dans le domaine de la pornographie, qualifie une représentation érotique, plus suggérée qu’exhibée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’évoque alors en rafale les rumeurs courant les salles de rédaction sur Ze Plan, qui instaurerait dans certains quartiers une sharia soft, mais Serge s’esclaffe « tout cela provient de la fuite d’un scénario de type « ultra-accommodant » de la cellule Prospective du ministère de l’Intérieur, c’est payé pour ça les cellules Prospectives, gamberger sans ta…
Une version soft de la « préférence nationale » chère à Marine Le Pen…
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osft
- sfot
- sofft
- softt
- sotf
- ssoft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soft - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).