soy

Other forms of soy

plural

soys·

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.

Questions about soy

What does soy mean?

soy means "a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soy?

soy has 1 syllable: soy. In IPA it is /ˈsɔɪ/.

What is another word for soy?

Close synonyms include soybean, soya bean, soya, soybean, soya bean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soy a common word?

soy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.