Solas
"solas" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Solas” is uncommon English (frequency #67,059 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,059
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname
Corpus desk
Index EN-solas · Solas · English
Solas · rank #67,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,059
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sojourner
Nearest frequency peer: sojourner (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Solas”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sockeye
sockeye
32,946 corpus weight
- softwood
softwood
32,944 corpus weight
- sojourner
sojourner
32,943 corpus weight
- Solas
Solas
32,942 corpus weight
- solus
solus
32,940 corpus weight
- soppy
soppy
32,939 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Solas” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Solas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Solas” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Solas is uncommon English at frequency #67,059 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Solas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: * (Norwegian surname): Norwegian Solås * (Spanish surname): Spanish Solás The correct English form is Solas, spelled S-O-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1A surname
- 2A surname
Etymology
* (Norwegian surname): Norwegian Solås * (Spanish surname): Spanish Solás
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).