sophistes
\sɔ.fist\
The verdict
“sophistes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,528 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,528
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sophiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sophistes · sophistes · French
sophistes · rank #65,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,528
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonneur
Nearest frequency peer: sonneur (-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 « sophistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sombrent
sombrent
34,476 corpus weight
- songerait
songerait
34,475 corpus weight
- sonneur
sonneur
34,474 corpus weight
- sophistes
sophistes
34,473 corpus weight
- soudains
soudains
34,472 corpus weight
- soufflera
soufflera
34,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sophistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sophistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.fist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sophistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sophistes is uncommon French at frequency #65,528 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.fist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sophiste.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sophistes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sophistes, spelled S-O-P-H-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sophiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sophistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui est faux finit par déplaire : l’homme a en lui-même un principe de droiture que l’on ne choque pas impunément. De là vient que les ouvrages des sophistes n’obtiennent qu’un succès passager : ils brillent tour à tour d’un faux éclat, et tombent dans l’oubli.
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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