sol bémol majeur
\sɔl be.mɔl ma.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“sol bémol majeur” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - La gamme de mode majeur dont le sol bémol est la tonique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sol bémol majeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔl be.mɔl ma.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sol bémol majeur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sol bémol majeur is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔl be.mɔl ma.ʒœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sol bémol majeur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sol bémol majeur, spelled S-O-L- -B-É-M-O-L- -M-A-J-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La gamme de mode majeur dont le sol bémol est la tonique.
- 2L’accord majeur dont la fondamentale est le sol bémol.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is S-O-L- -B-É-M-O-L- -M-A-J-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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