soye
\swaj\
The verdict
“soye” is uncommon French (frequency #77,050 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soye · soye · French
soye · rank #77,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,050
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souviendras
Nearest frequency peer: souviendras (-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 « soye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Souillac
Souillac
22,955 corpus weight
- sourcilière
sourcilière
22,954 corpus weight
- soutiendrais
soutiendrais
22,953 corpus weight
- souviendras
souviendras
22,952 corpus weight
- soye
soye
22,951 corpus weight
- spezia
spezia
22,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \swaj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soye is uncommon French at frequency #77,050 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \swaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soye, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 soye, spelled S-O-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tiens, vrai, mon homme, c’est du malheur tout de même qu’on soye jamais tranquille, ce soir j’étais rudement amoureuse…
— À la bonne heure, dit Clémentine en souriant largement. Il y a une justice. Faut pas qu’on soye pressé, c’est tout.
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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