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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables
soal
IPA
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of sole.

British usage

noun

Obsolete form of sole (the fish).

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

soals (plural) sole (alternative)

Questions

What does soal mean?
Alternative spelling of sole.
Where does soal come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce soal

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