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say it: soyl
soil is a noun and verb meaning "the state of being covered with unclean things". It is pronounced /ˈsɔɪl/ — soyl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
“the land had never been plowed”
“good agricultural soil”
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
“American troops were stationed on Japanese soil”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.