Sopalin
\sɔ.pa.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“Sopalin” is uncommon French (frequency #51,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Papier essuie-tout jetable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sopalin · Sopalin · French
Sopalin · rank #51,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,141
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonnera
Nearest frequency peer: sonnera (-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 « Sopalin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- softball
softball
48,863 corpus weight
- sonnant
sonnant
48,862 corpus weight
- sonnera
sonnera
48,861 corpus weight
- Sopalin
Sopalin
48,860 corpus weight
- souhaitiez
souhaitiez
48,859 corpus weight
- soyeuse
soyeuse
48,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sopalin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sopalin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.pa.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sopalin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sopalin is uncommon French at frequency #51,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.pa.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Papier essuie-tout jetable.".
Sopalin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Sopalin, spelled S-O-P-A-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Papier essuie-tout jetable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sopalin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma grande fierté, c’est d’avoir abandonné le Sopalin pour des serviettes en tissu.
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).