soin
\swɛ̃\
The verdict
“soin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,681) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,681
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Application d’esprit à faire quelque chose ; attention à veiller au bon état de quelque chose, au bien de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soin · soin · French
soin · rank #1,681 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,681
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentiment
Nearest frequency peer: sentiment (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « soin »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- récemment
récemment
98,323 corpus weight
- savez
savez
98,322 corpus weight
- sentiment
sentiment
98,321 corpus weight
- soin
soin
98,320 corpus weight
- statistiques
statistiques
98,319 corpus weight
- statut
statut
98,318 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « soin » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 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) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « soin »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for soin is neighbouring look-alikes ("son", "sol", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \swɛ̃\. Frequency #1,681 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for soin, with forms such as "osin", "soinn", and "soni". 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, "son", "sol", "sun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 soin, spelled S-O-I-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Qui donc l’a si bien habillée ?… c’est incroyable comme elle est bien ! — J’y ai mis tous mes soins, répondit mademoiselle de Boussac. J’espère que j’ai réussi.
De là, on le renvoya aider à l’emmagasinage des bombes dans les soutes du Zeppelin — besogne qui exigeait un soin minutieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osin
- soinn
- soni
- ssoin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soin - 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.
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).