soyons
\swa.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“soyons” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,403
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soyons · soyons · French
soyons · rank #5,403 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,403
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sincèrement
Nearest frequency peer: sincèrement (-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 « soyons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentent
sentent
94,601 corpus weight
- sincère
sincère
94,600 corpus weight
- sincèrement
sincèrement
94,599 corpus weight
- soyons
soyons
94,598 corpus weight
- supérieures
supérieures
94,597 corpus weight
- tim
tim
94,595 corpus weight
What this shows « soyons » 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 | soyons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \swa.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soyons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around soyons (IPA \swa.jɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,403 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for soyons, with forms such as "osyons", "sooyns", and "soynos". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Soyouz", "sons", "soon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soyons, spelled S-O-Y-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de être.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soyons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Amérique, où nous ne dépendons que de nous-mêmes, où nous n’avons plus à ménager les lois arbitraires du rang et de la bienséance, où l’on nous croit même mariés, qui empêche que nous ne le soyons bientôt effectivement et que nous n’anoblissions notre amour par des serments que la religion autorise ?
Soyons désormais circonspects.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osyons
- sooyns
- soynos
- soyonns
- soyonss
- soyosn
- soyyons
- ssoyons
- syoons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soyons - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).