soyez
\swa.je\
The verdict
“soyez” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soyez · soyez · French
soyez · rank #2,389 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,389
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socialiste
Nearest frequency peer: socialiste (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « soyez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacré
sacré
97,616 corpus weight
- socialiste
socialiste
97,613 corpus weight
- soyez
soyez
97,612 corpus weight
- spéciale
spéciale
97,611 corpus weight
- surveillance
surveillance
97,610 corpus weight
- tas
tas
97,609 corpus weight
What this shows « soyez » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soyez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \swa.je\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soyez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around soyez (IPA \swa.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,389 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for soyez, with forms such as "osyez", "soeyz", and "soyezz". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "suez", "Soyouz", "soy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is soyez, spelled S-O-Y-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de être.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soyez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui que vous soyez, vous, qui avez trouvé l’art de tartufiser ainsi le langage du monde, répondez : Est-ce votre sagesse qui a servi de règle à Jesus-Christ ?
Ne l’utilisez plus jusqu’à ce que vous vous soyez procuré un petit logiciel permettant de «déseffacer» la carte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osyez
- soeyz
- soyezz
- soyyez
- soyze
- ssoyez
- syoez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soyez - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).