sots
\so\
The verdict
“sots” is uncommon French (frequency #56,278 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,278
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de sot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sots · sots · French
sots · rank #56,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,278
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souffriront
Nearest frequency peer: souffriront (+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 « sots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sona
sona
43,726 corpus weight
- soporifique
soporifique
43,725 corpus weight
- sots
sots
43,723 corpus weight
- souffriront
souffriront
43,722 corpus weight
- souscrites
souscrites
43,721 corpus weight
- souvenue
souvenue
43,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sots is uncommon French at frequency #56,278 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de sot.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sots in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sots, spelled S-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de sot.
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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