soin
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,681
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
soin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Application d’esprit à faire quelque chose ; attention à veiller au bon état de quelque chose, au bien de quelqu’un. Pronounced \swɛ̃\. It ranks #1,681 in French word frequency. Often confused with son and sol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soin is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \swɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,681 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for soin, with forms such as "osin", "soinn", and "soni". 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", "sun", 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 soin, spelled S-O-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Application d’esprit à faire quelque chose ; attention à veiller au bon état de quelque chose, au bien de quelqu’un.
- 2Charge, fonction, devoir de prendre soin de quelque chose, d’y veiller.
- 3Les détails du ménage, de la conduite d’une maison, d’une ferme, etc. et l’attention qu’ils demandent.
- 4Traitement qu’on fait à un malade, les remèdes qu’on lui donne, des attentions qu’on a pour le soulager.
- 5Attentions qu’on a pour quelqu’un, les services qu’on lui rend, les peines qu’on lui épargne.
- 6Ce que l'on fait pour plaire.
- 7Inquiétude, peine d’esprit, souci.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osin,soinn,soni,ssoin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soin
Misspelling Variants of "soin"
Frequency rank: #1,681 in French
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