somali
\sɔ.ma.li\
The verdict
“somali” is uncommon French (frequency #77,943 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,943
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De la Somalie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somali · somali · French
somali · rank #77,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,943
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soldent
Nearest frequency peer: soldent (-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 « somali »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- softs
softs
22,061 corpus weight
- soldent
soldent
22,059 corpus weight
- somali
somali
22,058 corpus weight
- souhaita
souhaita
22,057 corpus weight
- soupière
soupière
22,056 corpus weight
- sourira
sourira
22,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « somali » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔ.ma.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « somali » en français
Rare enough to double-check
somali is uncommon French at frequency #77,943 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔ.ma.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De la Somalie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for somali, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is somali, spelled S-O-M-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1De la Somalie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how somali appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après mon départ de Gondar, je finis par des relations de hasard, au quartier chaud de Djibouti, avec des filles somali ; pourtant, de ces amours ou dérisoires ou malheureuses j’ai gardé une impression de paradis.
L’augmentation des commerces tenus par les Yéménites va de pair avec la disparition des commerçants somalis et afars, ainsi qu’une « yéménisation » des modes de vie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).