soloist
"soloist" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soloist” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,095. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,095
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who performs a solo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soloist · soloist · English
soloist · rank #29,095 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,095
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soleil
Nearest frequency peer: soleil (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “soloist”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- snapper
snapper
70,909 corpus weight
- Snickers
Snickers
70,908 corpus weight
- soleil
soleil
70,907 corpus weight
- soloist
soloist
70,906 corpus weight
- Somerville
Somerville
70,905 corpus weight
- soreness
soreness
70,904 corpus weight
What this shows “soloist” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soloist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “soloist”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around soloist, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,095 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person who performs a solo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for soloist, with forms such as "osloist", "slooist", and "soliost". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Solis", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From solo + -ist. The correct English form is soloist, spelled S-O-L-O-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who performs a solo.
Etymology
From solo + -ist.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osloist
- slooist
- soliost
- solloist
- soloisst
- soloistt
- soloits
- solosit
- soolist
- ssoloist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soloist - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soloist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).