Sohier
The verdict
“Sohier” is uncommon French (frequency #96,389 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sohier · Sohier · French
Sohier · rank #96,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,389
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH smig
Nearest frequency peer: smig (-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 « Sohier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- signalétiqu…
signalétiques
3,615 corpus weight
- similis
similis
3,614 corpus weight
- smig
smig
3,613 corpus weight
- Sohier
Sohier
3,612 corpus weight
- soldado
soldado
3,611 corpus weight
- soldera
soldera
3,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sohier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sohier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sohier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sohier is uncommon French at frequency #96,389 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Sohier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sohier, spelled S-O-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sohier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les bénéfices records, fièrement affichés par les entreprises, ont été vécus comme un véritable provocation », atteste Joël Sohier, maître de conférences à l’université de Reims et auteur de l’ouvrage Le Syndicalisme en France (éd. Vuibert, 2010).
C’est par exemple le cas de Géraldine Sohier, qui a été tuée en 2016.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).