solitaire
/ˈsɑ.ləˌtɚ/noun, adjective
solitaire is spelled S-O-L-I-T-A-I-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is solitare: about 79,010 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Solitaire is a noun meaning “A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit”. The plural of solitaire is solitaires.
How many letters and syllables are in solitaire?
| Letters | 9: S-O-L-I-T-A-I-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, solitare, about 79,010 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell solitaire?
Solitaire is spelled S-O-L-I-T-A-I-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for solitaire 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 solitaire?
Solitaire appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 solitaire?
- UK /ˈsɒl.ɪˌtɛə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈsɑ.ləˌtɚ/
Solitaire has 3 syllables (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)-Vealhurl-solitaire.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with solitaire
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: solitary.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with solitaire?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as solitaire from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlətəɹ/):
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 solitaire
- solitaires plural
- more solitaire comparative
- most solitaire superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does solitaire mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
- 2
A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
- 3
CanadaUSAny of various card games that can be played by one person.
- 4
Ellipsis of Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct bird related to the dodo.
- 5
Ellipsis of Réunion solitaire (Raphus solitarius, now Threskiornis solitarius), an extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo.
- 6
One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
- 7
A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.
- 8
obsoleteA black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.
adjective
- 1
Living or being alone; solitary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Solitaire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Solitaire , ibis de la Réunion, solitaire de la Réunion, dronte de la Réunion , solitaire |
| German | Solitär |
| Spanish | Senku , solitario |
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 solitaire come from?
Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).