soyeuse

\swa.jøz\

/\swa.jøz\/ noun

The verdict

“soyeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #51,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,143
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fabricante ou négociante de soieries.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soyeuse · soyeuse · French

soyeuse · rank #51,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,143
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souhaitiez

Nearest frequency peer: souhaitiez (-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 « soyeuse »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for soyeuse
PropertyValue
Headwordsoyeuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\swa.jøz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,143
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « soyeuse » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.soyeusetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « souhaitiez » (#51,142), « spécifiée » (#51,144), « Sopalin » (#51,141). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soyeuse » est au #51,143. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

soyeuse is uncommon French at frequency #51,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swa.jøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fabricante ou négociante de soieries.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soyeuse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 soyeuse, spelled S-O-Y-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fabricante ou négociante de soieries.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La dernière grève que je menais fut celle des veloutières et soyeuses de Voiron (Isère) et de Tarare (Rhône) contre l’augmentation du nombre de métiers.

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 "soyeuse"?
"soyeuse" is spelled S-O-Y-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \swa.jøz\.
What does "soyeuse" mean?
As a noun, "soyeuse" means: Fabricante ou négociante de soieries.
How do you pronounce "soyeuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soyeuse" is \swa.jøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soyeuse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list