soif
\swaf\
The verdict
“soif” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désir, envie ou besoin de boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soif · soif · French
soif · rank #6,243 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signée
Nearest frequency peer: signée (-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 « soif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- serons
serons
93,761 corpus weight
- sexuels
sexuels
93,760 corpus weight
- signée
signée
93,759 corpus weight
- soif
soif
93,758 corpus weight
- souffert
souffert
93,757 corpus weight
- symboles
symboles
93,756 corpus weight
What this shows « soif » 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 | soif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swaf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around soif (IPA \swaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for soif, with forms such as "osif", "siof", and "sofi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "sol", "sou", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is soif, spelled S-O-I-F.
Definition
- 1Désir, envie ou besoin de boire.
- 2Désir immodéré ou impatient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’avez-vous pas faim et soif, seigneur archer ? reprit la jeune fille ; mettez-vous donc à cette table, et buvez et mangez ; c’est moi qui vous y invite.
Il y avait deux longues heures que nous marchions, dans les champs, sous le soleil qui tombait du ciel comme une pluie de feu ; la sueur ruisselait sur mon corps et la soif, une soif ardente, me dévorait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osif
- siof
- sofi
- soiff
- ssoif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soif - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).