soum

\sum\

/\sum\/ noun

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The verdict

“soum” is uncommon French (frequency #70,222 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,222
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soum · soum · French

soum · rank #70,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,222
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souhaitera

Nearest frequency peer: souhaitera (-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 « soum »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soum
PropertyValue
Headwordsoum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sum\
Letters4
Frequency rank#70,222
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soum » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).soumtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « souhaitera » (#70,221), « soustractions » (#70,223), « soubassements » (#70,220). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soum » est au #70,222. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soum is uncommon French at frequency #70,222 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sum\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan.".

No misspelling variants are generated for soum in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soum, spelled S-O-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how soum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sorti volens nolens de la zone rouble, I’Ouzbékistan introduit le 1ᵉʳ juillet 1994 sa monnaie nationale, le soum, le taux de change initial ayant été fixé à 1:7 par rapport au dollar américain.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soum"?
"soum" is spelled S-O-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \sum\.
What does "soum" mean?
As a noun, "soum" means: Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan.
How do you pronounce "soum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soum" is \sum\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soum" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soum", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

spie#70,226SPIP#70,227sela#70,207sunt#70,243

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list