soja

\sɔ.ʒa\

/\sɔ.ʒa\/ noun

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The verdict

“soja” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,058
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légumineuse de la famille des Fabacées originaire de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soja · soja · French

soja · rank #12,058 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,058
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soft

Nearest frequency peer: soft (-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 « soja »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soja » 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).

soja vs son
50% similar
soja vs sol
50% similar
soja vs sou
50% similar

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

Key facts for soja
PropertyValue
Headwordsoja
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.ʒa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#12,058
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soja »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sojase place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soft » (#12,057), « sorcières » (#12,059), « slip » (#12,056). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soja » est au #12,058. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around soja (IPA \sɔ.ʒa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,058 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 soja, with forms such as "osja", "sjoa", and "soaj". 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", "sou", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soja, spelled S-O-J-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Légumineuse de la famille des Fabacées originaire de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
  2. 2
    Graines de cette plante consommées cuites ou fermentées comme aliment (lait de soja, tofu, sauce de soja…). Les graines sont toxiques crues.
  3. 3
    Germes de haricot mungo, plante de la famille des légumineuses (Vigna radiata), consommés crus comme aliment, généralement appelé « germe de soja » ou « pousse de soja ».

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le soja est une plante stratégique pour l’alimentation humaine directe (notamment dans les pays en développement producteurs) et pour l’agro-industrie : près de 20 % de la consommation mondiale d’huile et de matières grasses alimentaires en sont issus, plus qu’aucune autre source animale ou végétale. Après extraction artisanale ou industrielle de l’huile…
  2. Citons également dans ce groupe l’alachlore (ou métachlore). Il est assez utilisé dans le désherbage du maïs et du soja contre les graminées estivales et beaucoup de dicotylédones (amarante, morelle noire…).

This word in other languages

soy(English)soja(Español)Soja(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osja
  • sjoa
  • soaj
  • sojja
  • ssoja

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soja - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osja2sjoa2soaj2sojja1ssoja1
Edit distance from "soja"

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 "soja"?
"soja" is spelled S-O-J-A. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.ʒa\.
What does "soja" mean?
As a noun, "soja" means: Légumineuse de la famille des Fabacées originaire de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
What words are commonly confused with "soja"?
"soja" is commonly confused with "son", "sol", "sou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soja"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soja" is \sɔ.ʒa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soja" come from?
"soja" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

soft#12,057slip#12,056math#11,994mare#11,992

Similar misspelling depth

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

perse5 variantsJoan5 variantsclou5 variantsfeat5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list