soyer

\swa.je\

/\swa.je\/ noun

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The verdict

“soyer” is uncommon French (frequency #56,282 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,282
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verre de champagne glacé, qu’on boit avec une paille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soyer · soyer · French

soyer · rank #56,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,282
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souvenue

Nearest frequency peer: souvenue (-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 « soyer »

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 « soyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soyer
PropertyValue
Headwordsoyer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\swa.je\
Letters5
Frequency rank#56,282
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soyer » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soyertombe 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: « souvenue » (#56,281), « spinal » (#56,283), « souscrites » (#56,280). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soyer » est au #56,282. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soyer is uncommon French at frequency #56,282 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verre de champagne glacé, qu’on boit avec une paille.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for soyer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soyer, spelled S-O-Y-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Verre de champagne glacé, qu’on boit avec une paille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Et là, devant la paille d’un Soyer : « Non, je ne suis plus susceptible de supporter un embêtement quelconque… Les notaires de Rouen me regardent comme un toqué… […].
  2. M. Dubourg s'était arrêté net et toisait Mimi, d'un œil curieux, mais peu engageant. On était au bar. Mimi, pour se donner courage, avala tout un soyer, d'un seul trait.

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 "soyer"?
"soyer" is spelled S-O-Y-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \swa.je\.
What does "soyer" mean?
As a noun, "soyer" means: Verre de champagne glacé, qu’on boit avec une paille.
How do you pronounce "soyer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soyer" is \swa.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soyer" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sturm#56,291saran#56,257tatou#56,308salua#56,255

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list