soierie
\swa.ʁi\
The verdict
“soierie” is uncommon French (frequency #94,287 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,287
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toutes sortes de marchandises de soie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soierie · soierie · French
soierie · rank #94,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,287
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soissonnais
Nearest frequency peer: soissonnais (+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 « soierie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- smell
smell
5,718 corpus weight
- socialism
socialism
5,716 corpus weight
- soierie
soierie
5,714 corpus weight
- soissonnais
soissonnais
5,713 corpus weight
- sophistique
sophistique
5,712 corpus weight
- sorrow
sorrow
5,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soierie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soierie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soierie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soierie is uncommon French at frequency #94,287 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swa.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for soierie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is soierie, spelled S-O-I-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Toutes sortes de marchandises de soie.
- 2Fabrique de soie, manière de préparer la soie et lieu où on la prépare.
- 3Fabrication et le commerce de la soie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soierie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; il acheta pour deux cent mille francs de terrains, de maisons, et lança vers New-York un navire chargé de soieries françaises achetées à bas prix à Lyon.
A la même occasion je fus témoin de la réception d'une délégation de la communauté israélite de Settat. Arrivée à une distance respectueuse des tentes de Si Ahmed, elle se prosterna très bas et déposa son offrande de soieries, après quoi elle fut congédiée d'un geste hautain, sans une parole.
This word in other languages
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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