soufi
\su.fi\
The verdict
“soufi” is uncommon French (frequency #54,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au soufisme ou à ses adeptes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soufi · soufi · French
soufi · rank #54,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,271
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soumettez
Nearest frequency peer: soumettez (+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 « soufi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- snobs
snobs
45,734 corpus weight
- socioprofes…
socioprofessionnelle
45,733 corpus weight
- soigneux
soigneux
45,732 corpus weight
- soufi
soufi
45,730 corpus weight
- soumettez
soumettez
45,729 corpus weight
- sourates
sourates
45,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soufi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soufi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \su.fi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soufi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soufi is uncommon French at frequency #54,271 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \su.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au soufisme ou à ses adeptes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for soufi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is soufi, spelled S-O-U-F-I.
Definition
- 1Relatif au soufisme ou à ses adeptes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soufi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est le sanctuaire de Hazrat Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi, un saint soufi, protecteur de Karachi.
Dans une allocution prononcée à cette occasion, le président du CSLA, Azeddine Mihoubi a indiqué que cette cérémonie constitue un hommage à la mémoire de l’un des piliers de la poésie soufie tamazighte, saluant les efforts déployés par l’association culturelle qui porte le nom du poète, dans la réhabilitation du l’héritage culturel oral.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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