soie
French, noun/swa/
soie is a French feminine noun meaning “silk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière filamenteuse, fine et brillante, produite par les araignées et les chenilles de la plupart des…”.
What does soie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesilk
route de la soie
- 2
femininebristle
- 3
femininetang of a blade
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matière filamenteuse, fine et brillante, produite par les araignées et les chenilles de la plupart des insectes. 2. Fibre textile ou étoffe fabriquée à partir de cocons, généralement ceux du bombyx du mûrier ou ver à soie. 3. Poil de certains animaux. 4. Soie artificielle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of soie
- soies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soie?
- /swa/
- \swa\
- [swa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soie in French?
soie appears 9.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).