sop
\sop\
The verdict
“sop” is uncommon French (frequency #88,112 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,112
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brin, touffe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sop · sop · French
sop · rank #88,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,112
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solanum
Nearest frequency peer: solanum (-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 « sop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Solana
Solana
11,891 corpus weight
- solanum
solanum
11,890 corpus weight
- sop
sop
11,889 corpus weight
- soubresaut
soubresaut
11,888 corpus weight
- soudant
soudant
11,887 corpus weight
- souviendrons
souviendrons
11,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sop\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #88,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sop is uncommon French at frequency #88,112 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sop\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brin, touffe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sop in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sop, spelled S-O-P.
Definition
- 1Brin, touffe.
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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