soo
\ˈsow\
The verdict
“soo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,237) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,237
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de soar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soo · soo · French
soo · rank #27,237 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,237
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soleils
Nearest frequency peer: soleils (-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 « soo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- snack
snack
72,767 corpus weight
- SNCB
SNCB
72,766 corpus weight
- soleils
soleils
72,765 corpus weight
- soo
soo
72,764 corpus weight
- Sotchi
Sotchi
72,763 corpus weight
- soudanais
soudanais
72,762 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « soo » 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 | soo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsow\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « soo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for soo is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈsow\. Frequency #27,237 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de soar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for soo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "ss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soo, spelled S-O-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de soar.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).