scolaire

\skɔ.lɛʁ\

/\skɔ.lɛʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“scolaire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,837
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à l’école, que ce soit à l'enseignement qui y est prodigué, aux bâtiments qu'elle occupe ou aux personnes qui la fréquentent, notamment les élèves.

Corpus desk

Index FR-scolaire · scolaire · French

scolaire · rank #1,837 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,837
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH savais

Nearest frequency peer: savais (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « scolaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « scolaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

scolaire vs solaire
88% similar
scolaire vs solaires
75% similar
scolaire vs scolaires
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for scolaire
PropertyValue
Headwordscolaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\skɔ.lɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,837
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scolaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).scolairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « savais » (#1,836), « sauver » (#1,835), « totale » (#1,839). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « scolaire » est au #1,837. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around scolaire (IPA \skɔ.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,837 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for scolaire, with forms such as "csolaire", "sccolaire", and "scloaire". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "solaire", "solaires", "scolaires", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scolaire, spelled S-C-O-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui se rapporte à l’école, que ce soit à l'enseignement qui y est prodigué, aux bâtiments qu'elle occupe ou aux personnes qui la fréquentent, notamment les élèves.
  2. 2
    Qui se rapporte à un enseignement formaté, sans créativité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how scolaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On étudiera également les possibilités d’épellation du malade pour des mots en rapport avec son niveau scolaire.
  2. Partout dans le monde les manuels scolaires sont quelque peu malmenés, dans des sens divers : les chantres de l'électronique en prédisent la disparition au profit du multimédia ; […].

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • csolaire
  • sccolaire
  • scloaire
  • scoalire
  • scolaier
  • scolairre
  • scolarie
  • scoliare
  • scollaire
  • soclaire
  • sscolaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scolaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

csolaire2sccolaire1scloaire2scoalire2scolaier2scolairre1scolarie2scoliare2
Edit distance from "scolaire"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "scolaire"?
"scolaire" is spelled S-C-O-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \skɔ.lɛʁ\.
What does "scolaire" mean?
As an adjective, "scolaire" means: Qui se rapporte à l’école, que ce soit à l'enseignement qui y est prodigué, aux bâtiments qu'elle occupe ou aux personnes qui la fréquentent, notamment les élèves.
What words are commonly confused with "scolaire"?
"scolaire" is commonly confused with "solaire", "solaires", "scolaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "scolaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "scolaire" is \skɔ.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "scolaire" come from?
"scolaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "scolaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list