soil

noun

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The verdict

“soil” is uncommon French (frequency #60,384 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,384
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-soil · soil · French

soil · rank #60,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,384
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Solveig

Nearest frequency peer: Solveig (+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 « soil »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soil
PropertyValue
Headwordsoil
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#60,384
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soil » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).soiltombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Solveig » (#60,385), « socioéconomiques » (#60,382), « Souad » (#60,386). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soil » est au #60,384. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soil is uncommon French at frequency #60,384 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de souil.".

No misspelling variants are generated for soil in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soil, spelled S-O-I-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de souil.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. ils chairent par leur orguil Del beau ciel cler en l'oscur soil.

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 "soil"?
"soil" is spelled S-O-I-L.
What does "soil" mean?
As a noun, "soil" means: Variante de souil.
What language does "soil" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Scud#60,367suif#60,403teri#60,427thau#60,430

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list