sot
French, noun/so/
sot is spelled S-O-T (3 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sot is a French masculine noun meaning “imbecile, fool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne sans esprit, sans jugement”.
What does sot mean in English?
adjective
- 1
silly, foolish, stupid
noun
- 1
masculineimbecile, fool
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est sans esprit, sans jugement. 2. Qui est embarrassé, déconcerté, confus. 3. Qui est fait sans esprit et sans jugement. 4. Qui est fâcheux ou ridicule.
noun: 1. Personne sans esprit, sans jugement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sot
- sotte feminine
- sots masculine plural
- sottes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sot?
- /so/
- /sɔ/
- \so\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sot in French?
sot appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).