soin
soin is a French noun meaning care. It is the 573rd most common word in French, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 467 sentences of real French prose.
573
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 467
sentences
contain it
71.0%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing soin and every French word above it covers 71.0% of the running words in a real book.
Is soin worth learning now?
Yes - soin is inside the first thousand French words, and those thousand cover 75.99% of the prose in a real book and 81.81% of everyday speech. Words this common are worth far more study time than anything further down the list.
Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a French text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.
French words of the same frequency
- dur #569 - hard
- envier #570 - to envy
- chanter #571 - to sing
- faux #572 - badly
- arrêté #574 - agreement, resolution, a thing agreed on, resolved upon
- rêver #575 - to dream
- chaud #576 - warm, hot
- âge #577 - age
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Where this comes from
The rank is measured, not copied: 281 million words of subtitle dialogue for how French is spoken, and 76 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so soin is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.
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