soliloquy
so·lil·o·quy/səˈlɪləkwi/noun, verb
soliloquy is spelled S-O-L-I-L-O-Q-U-Y, 4 syllables: so·lil·o·quy. The wrong spelling people search most is soliliquy: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Soliloquy is a noun meaning “The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience”. The plural of soliloquy is soliloquies.
How many letters and syllables are in soliloquy?
| Letters | 9: S-O-L-I-L-O-Q-U-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: so·lil·o·quy |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 56,108th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, soliliquy, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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).
How do you spell soliloquy?
Soliloquy is spelled S-O-L-I-L-O-Q-U-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for soliloquy in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is soliloquy?
Soliloquy appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th 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 soliloquy?
- /səˈlɪləkwi/
Soliloquy has 4 syllables, split so·lil·o·quy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-soliloquy.ogg, En-au-soliloquy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of soliloquy
- soliloquies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- soliloquying participle, present
- soliloquing participle, present
- soliloquied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does soliloquy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.
- 2
A speech or written discourse in this form.
verb
- 1
rareTo issue a soliloquy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Soliloquy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | soliloque , monologue |
| German | Selbstgespräch , Monolog |
| Portuguese | solilóquio |
| Spanish | soliloquio |
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 soliloquy come from?
1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“to speak”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).