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sol

/sɔl/noun

sol is spelled S-O-L: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sol means “In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sol is sols or soles.

How many letters and syllables are in sol?

Letters3: S-O-L
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sol?

Sol appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sol?

  • UK /sɒl/
  • UK /səʊl/
  • US /sɔl/

As a noun (“An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12…”): /sɒl/, /sɔl/, /sɑl/.

Sol has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-sol.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Sol.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with sol

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

sol vs soul0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with sol?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sol from its last stressed vowel (/ɔl/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: los.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sol

  • sols plural
  • so
  • soh
  • soles plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sol mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.

  2. 2

    In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

  3. 3

    An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.

  4. 4

    A former Spanish-American silver coin.

  5. 5

    In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

  6. 6

    A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).

  7. 7

    A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

  8. 8

    obsoleteA solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.

  9. 9

    informalClipping of solidarity.

noun

as Sol
  1. 1

    rareOr (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

  2. 2

    obsoleteGold.

noun

as SOL
  1. 1

    Initialism of statute of limitations.

  2. 2

    Initialism of speed of light.

  3. 3

    Initialism of slice of life.

  4. 4

    Initialism of standards of learning.

  5. 5

    Initialism of sleep onset latency.

  6. 6

    Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma

  7. 7

    Initialism of stoppages of leave.

adjective

as SOL
  1. 1

    Initialism of shit out of luck.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sol in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsol (in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a…)
Portuguesesol (in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a…)
Spanishsol (in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a…)
GermanSol (type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does sol come from?

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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