fleur de soleil
\flœʁ də sɔ.lɛj\
The verdict
“fleur de soleil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de tournesol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleur de soleil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœʁ də sɔ.lɛj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fleur de soleil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fleur de soleil is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flœʁ də sɔ.lɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonyme de tournesol.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fleur de soleil, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fleur de soleil, spelled F-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-O-L-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de tournesol.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fleur de soleil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -S-O-L-E-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.