sojavssortTell them apart

Which to use

“soja” and “sort” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#12,058
“soja” frequency rank
#747
“sort” frequency rank
12805
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soja sort
Definition Légumineuse de la famille des Fabacées originaire de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. La destinée considérée comme cause des divers événements de la vie.

Where the eye mixes soja and sort

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
soja
4 ch
sort

Visual trap between soja and sort

A purely visual mix-up. soja (\sɔ.ʒa\) and sort (\sɔʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12805, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soja is recorded at frequency rank #12,058, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.ʒa\. sort is at rank #747, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 12805, this pair ranks #403,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of soja vs sort

Shared letters: os. Private to "soja": aj. Private to "sort": rt.

"soja" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sort" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sojaosja · sjoa · soaj · sojja · ssoja
  • sortosrt · sorrt · sortt · sotr · srot · ssort

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soja" and "sort" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\sɔ.ʒa\ versus \sɔʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "soja" vs "sort" - which ranks higher?
"sort" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #747 in our French list, against #12,058 for "soja". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "soja" and "sort" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soja" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sort" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #403,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soja" and "sort" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soja vs soya". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #403,680 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list