solaire

\sɔ.lɛʁ\

/\sɔ.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“solaire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,022
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne le soleil, qui a rapport au soleil.

Corpus desk

Index FR-solaire · solaire · French

solaire · rank #4,022 · 9 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,022
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH seras

Nearest frequency peer: seras (-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 « solaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « solaire » 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).

solaire vs solar
71% similar
solaire vs solide
71% similar
solaire vs sourire
71% similar

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

Key facts for solaire
PropertyValue
Headwordsolaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɔ.lɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,022
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « solaire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).solairese 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 « seras » (#4,021), « sorties » (#4,023), « rio » (#4,020). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « solaire » est au #4,022. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around solaire (IPA \sɔ.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,022 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for solaire, with forms such as "oslaire", "sloaire", and "soalire". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "solar", "solide", "sourire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is solaire, spelled S-O-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne le soleil, qui a rapport au soleil.
  2. 2
    Qui tire profit des apports du soleil pour le confort thermique et lumineux et pour la maîtrise des consommations énergétiques de l’habitat.
  3. 3
    Qui s’épanouit pendant que le soleil est sur l’horizon.
  4. 4
    Qui appartient à la région abdominale du système nerveux sympathique.
  5. 5
    Radieux, rayonnant.
  6. 6
    Qualifie les quatorze consonnes coronales de l'arabe (t, ṯ, d, ḏ, r, z, s, š, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ, l, n) qui provoquent l'assimilation du l de l’article al, comme avec le soleil الشمس où "al-šams" se prononce "aš-šams". Ceci contrairement aux consonnes dites lunaires.
  7. 7
    Variante orthographique de sol-air.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pour les chauffe-eau solaires monobloc, des avis techniques et des certificats de contrôle de qualité (CSTBat) sont délivrés par le Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment. Chaque chauffe-eau solaire doit comporter un marquage sur lequel sont consignés : […].
  2. Par régulation thermostatique, la chaudière se déclenche seulement si la chaleur solaire est insuffisante; néanmoins l’eau caloporteuse est préchauffée et réduit l’augmentation de température nécessaire.

This word in other languages

solar(English)solar(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oslaire
  • sloaire
  • soalire
  • solaier
  • solairre
  • solarie
  • soliare
  • sollaire
  • ssolaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of solaire - 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.

oslaire2sloaire2soalire2solaier2solairre1solarie2soliare2sollaire1
Edit distance from "solaire"

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 "solaire"?
"solaire" is spelled S-O-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.lɛʁ\.
What does "solaire" mean?
As an adjective, "solaire" means: Qui concerne le soleil, qui a rapport au soleil.
What words are commonly confused with "solaire"?
"solaire" is commonly confused with "solar", "solide", "sourire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "solaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "solaire" is \sɔ.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "solaire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sorties#4,023traités#4,028Adapter#4,032arbitre#4,038

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Ontario9 variantsArthur9 variantsamateur9 variantsdécédé9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list