sotto
\ˈsɔt.to\
The verdict
“sotto” is uncommon French (frequency #59,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,647
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous, bas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sotto · sotto · French
sotto · rank #59,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,647
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sortirons
Nearest frequency peer: sortirons (-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 « sotto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sociables
sociables
40,357 corpus weight
- sortirons
sortirons
40,355 corpus weight
- sotto
sotto
40,354 corpus weight
- soupçonnant
soupçonnant
40,353 corpus weight
- souscrivent
souscrivent
40,352 corpus weight
- southwest
southwest
40,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sotto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sotto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ˈsɔt.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sotto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sotto is uncommon French at frequency #59,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed \ˈsɔt.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous, bas.".
sotto 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sotto, spelled S-O-T-T-O.
Definition
- 1Sous, bas.
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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