soliton
"soliton" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soliton” is uncommon English (frequency #96,495 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,495
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A solitary wave which retains its permanent structure after interacting with another soliton.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soliton · soliton · English
soliton · rank #96,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,495
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Smithtown
Nearest frequency peer: Smithtown (-3 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 “soliton”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- skulduggery
skulduggery
3,515 corpus weight
- slimeball
slimeball
3,513 corpus weight
- Smithtown
Smithtown
3,509 corpus weight
- soliton
soliton
3,506 corpus weight
- spaciousness
spaciousness
3,498 corpus weight
- Speciale
Speciale
3,497 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soliton” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soliton |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soliton” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soliton is uncommon English at frequency #96,495 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A solitary wave which retains its permanent structure after interacting with another soliton.".
soliton has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From solitary + -on. The correct English form is soliton, spelled S-O-L-I-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A solitary wave which retains its permanent structure after interacting with another soliton.
Etymology
From solitary + -on.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).