soies

\swa\

/\swa\/ noun

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The verdict

“soies” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,044
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de soie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soies · soies · French

soies · rank #39,044 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,044
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH slt

Nearest frequency peer: slt (-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 « soies »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « soies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

soies vs SOS
0% similar
soies vs suis
60% similar
soies vs sous
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for soies
PropertyValue
Headwordsoies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\swa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#39,044
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soies »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).soiesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « slt » (#39,043), « sollicitent » (#39,045), « Skye » (#39,042). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soies » est au #39,044. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around soies (IPA \swa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,044 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de soie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for soies, with forms such as "osies", "sioes", and "soeis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SOS", "suis", "sous", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soies, spelled S-O-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de soie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how soies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Même si les soies maxillaires peuvent momentanément se décoapter comme chez certains Lépidoptères (Parastichtis monoglypha Hufn.), il est nécessaire que les deux canaux nourricier et salivaire soient constitués au moment l’aspiration et de l’expiration produites par l’animal.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osies
  • sioes
  • soeis
  • soiess
  • ssoies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soies - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

osies2sioes2soeis2soiess1ssoies1
Edit distance from "soies"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soies"?
"soies" is spelled S-O-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \swa\.
What does "soies" mean?
As a noun, "soies" means: Pluriel de soie.
What words are commonly confused with "soies"?
"soies" is commonly confused with "SOS", "suis", "sous". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soies" is \swa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soies" come from?
"soies" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

skill#39,041sauva#39,034terni#39,068Patti#38,969

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list