soli
"soli" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soli” is uncommon English (frequency #57,085 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,085
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of solo
Corpus desk
Index EN-soli · soli · English
soli · rank #57,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,085
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sodden
Nearest frequency peer: sodden (-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 “soli”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sodden
sodden
42,917 corpus weight
- soli
soli
42,916 corpus weight
- Southall
Southall
42,915 corpus weight
- specie
specie
42,914 corpus weight
- speechwriter
speechwriter
42,913 corpus weight
- spillage
spillage
42,912 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soli” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soli |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soli” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soli is uncommon English at frequency #57,085 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of solo".
soli doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is soli, spelled S-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1plural of solo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the first part, the flute plays solo in Trios 2 and 8, both in G major; the oboe has soli in Trios 4 and 10. This brings us to the clarinet. The part is written for clarinet in A, with soli in Trios 6, 9 and 12.
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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