solid

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The English entry for solid is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɒl.ɪd/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,919 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for solid, with forms such as "oslid", "sloid", and "soild". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "solo", "sound", "split", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is solid, spelled S-O-L-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.