soyeuse
\swa.jøz\
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
- sonnera
sonnera
48,861 corpus weight
- Sopalin
Sopalin
48,860 corpus weight
- souhaitiez
souhaitiez
48,859 corpus weight
- soyeuse
soyeuse
48,858 corpus weight
- spécifiée
spécifiée
48,857 corpus weight
- SSL
SSL
48,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soyeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soyeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa.jøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soyeuse » en français
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
- 1Fabricante ou négociante de soieries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soyeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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