sois

\swa\

/\swa\/ verb

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The verdict

“sois” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,787
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sois · sois · French

sois · rank #1,787 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,787
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soins

Nearest frequency peer: soins (-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 « sois »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sois » 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).

sois vs ss
50% similar
sois vs son
50% similar
sois vs sol
50% similar

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

Key facts for sois
PropertyValue
Headwordsois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\swa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,787
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sois »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).soisse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soins » (#1,786), « supérieure » (#1,788), « rare » (#1,785). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sois » est au #1,787. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around sois (IPA \swa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,787 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sois, with forms such as "osis", "sios", and "soiss". 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, "ss", "son", "sol", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sois, spelled S-O-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.
  3. 3
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de être.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il vaudrait mieux pour toi que tu sois absent.
  2. Seigneur, viens à mon aide ! Ne sois pas mort !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osis
  • sios
  • soiss
  • sosi
  • ssois

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sois - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osis2sios2soiss1sosi2ssois1
Edit distance from "sois"

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 "sois"?
"sois" is spelled S-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \swa\.
What does "sois" mean?
As a verb, "sois" means: Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.
What words are commonly confused with "sois"?
"sois" is commonly confused with "ss", "son", "sol". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sois" is \swa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sois" come from?
"sois" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

rare#1,785vécu#1,794marc#1,777allé#1,800

Similar misspelling depth

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

essaie5 variantsquitte5 variantsutile5 variantsaurai5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list