soufie
\su.fi\
The verdict
“soufie” is uncommon French (frequency #95,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,348
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adepte du soufisme, mystique musulmane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soufie · soufie · French
soufie · rank #95,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,348
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sore
Nearest frequency peer: sore (-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 « soufie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sombrait
sombrait
4,657 corpus weight
- somma
somma
4,656 corpus weight
- sore
sore
4,654 corpus weight
- soufie
soufie
4,653 corpus weight
- soupirants
soupirants
4,652 corpus weight
- spicy
spicy
4,650 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soufie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soufie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soufie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soufie is uncommon French at frequency #95,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adepte du soufisme, mystique musulmane.".
soufie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 soufie, spelled S-O-U-F-I-E.
Definition
- 1Adepte du soufisme, mystique musulmane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soufie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait là des femmes pasteurs, une femme rabbin (une Française), non reconnue par le judaïsme orthodoxe, une représentante du Vatican (qui interdit la prêtrise aux femmes), une soufie, mexicaine et imam, probablement la seule femme imam de l’islam, des religieuses chrétiennes du Guatemala, mais aussi une Guatémaltèque protestante et maya, qui pratique…
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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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