Solitär

[zoliˈtɛːɐ̯]

/[zoliˈtɛːɐ̯]/ noun

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The verdict

“Solitär” is uncommon German (frequency #57,412 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,412
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einzeln lebendes Wesen

Corpus desk

Index DE-solitar · Solitär · German

Solitär · rank #57,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,412
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sommernachtst…

Nearest frequency peer: Sommernachtstraum (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Solitär“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Solitär“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Solitär
PropertyValue
HeadwordSolitär
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[zoliˈtɛːɐ̯]
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,412
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Solitär“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Solitärfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Sommernachtstraum“ (#57,413), „skrupellose“ (#57,409), „Skiern“ (#57,408). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Solitär“ bei #57,412. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Solitär is uncommon German at frequency #57,412 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zoliˈtɛːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for Solitär in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Solitär, spelled S-O-L-I-T-Ä-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    einzeln lebendes Wesen
  2. 2
    einzeln stehende Pflanze
  3. 3
    allein stehendes Bauwerk
  4. 4
    einzeln vorliegender Befund
  5. 5
    ein einzeln gefasster Diamant oder Edelstein

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Solitär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Ich kenne keinen zweiten so perfekt proportionierten Solitär.“
  2. „Ihr Onkel war schon fort, um seine Messe zu lesen und meinen Solitär im Pfandhaus auszulösen.“

Antonyms

SchwarmHerdeSymbiontSymbiose

This word in other languages

solitario(Español)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Solitär"?
"Solitär" is spelled S-O-L-I-T-Ä-R. The IPA pronunciation is [zoliˈtɛːɐ̯].
What does "Solitär" mean?
As a noun, "Solitär" means: einzeln lebendes Wesen
How do you pronounce "Solitär"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Solitär" is [zoliˈtɛːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Solitär" come from?
"Solitär" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Solitär", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

shadows#57,403Stelzen#57,434Schocks#57,389schmoll#57,386

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list