soie
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,891
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
soie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière filamenteuse, fine et brillante, produite par les araignées et les chenilles de la plupart des insectes. Pronounced \swa\. It ranks #6,891 in French word frequency. Often confused with son and sol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soie is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \swa\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,891 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for soie, with forms such as "sioe", "soei", and "ssoie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "sol", "sou", 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 soie, spelled S-O-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matière filamenteuse, fine et brillante, produite par les araignées et les chenilles de la plupart des insectes.
- 2Fibre textile ou étoffe fabriquée à partir de cocons, généralement ceux du bombyx du mûrier ou ver à soie.
- 3Poil de certains animaux.
- 4Soie artificielle.
- 5Partie du fer d’une épée, d’un sabre, d’un couteau, qui entre dans la poignée, dans le manche afin d’y placer la main pour la tenir.
- 6Seime de la pince du cheval.
- 7Partie principale de la ligne située entre le backing et le bas de ligne, en matière synthétique ou en soie naturelle, et dont le poids permet le lancer de la mouche à une distance plus ou moins importante.
- 8Poil long et raide, tenant souvent lieu d'un élément du périanthe.
- 9Chez les bryophytes, pédicelle portant l'urne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sioe,soei,ssoie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soie
Misspelling Variants of "soie"
Frequency rank: #6,891 in French
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