soudoyer
\su.dwa.je\
The verdict
“soudoyer” is uncommon French (frequency #61,902 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,902
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme d’armes, mercenaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soudoyer · soudoyer · French
soudoyer · rank #61,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soufflez
Nearest frequency peer: soufflez (+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 « soudoyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- socios
socios
38,102 corpus weight
- soudoyer
soudoyer
38,099 corpus weight
- soufflez
soufflez
38,098 corpus weight
- soufflés
soufflés
38,097 corpus weight
- soufis
soufis
38,096 corpus weight
- souricière
souricière
38,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soudoyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soudoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.dwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soudoyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soudoyer is uncommon French at frequency #61,902 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.dwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme d’armes, mercenaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for soudoyer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soudoyer, spelled S-O-U-D-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Homme d’armes, mercenaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soudoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gens soumis au ban et à l’arrière-ban, sont des soudoyers qui ne peuvent quitter l’armée sans permission.
Dans l’armée de Tunis, on ne peut qu’entr’apercevoir la présence de soudoyers non nobles, sergents à cheval où à pied. […] Le poste de dépense qui leur est consacré est le plus important (243,000 livres tournois) : ils sont certainement plusieurs milliers, sans qu’on puisse établir la proportion de cavaliers et de fantassins. Leur recrutement s’est fait d…
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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