sol
\sɔl\
The verdict
“sol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #833) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #833
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième note de la gamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sol · sol · French
sol · rank #833 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #833
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soirée
Nearest frequency peer: soirée (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sol »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sept
sept
99,170 corpus weight
- soirée
soirée
99,169 corpus weight
- sol
sol
99,168 corpus weight
- Sport
Sport
99,167 corpus weight
- téléphone
téléphone
99,166 corpus weight
- Version
Version
99,165 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sol » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | sol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sol »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sol is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɔl\. Frequency #833 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Cinquième note de la gamme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sol, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "ss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sol, spelled S-O-L.
Definition
- 1Cinquième note de la gamme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En sol majeur.
Quand le mi bémol fit son entrée dans le salon, le do et le sol le considérèrent comme une tierce personne.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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