solaire

/\sɔ.lɛʁ\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,022

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

solaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui concerne le soleil, qui a rapport au soleil. Pronounced \sɔ.lɛʁ\. It ranks #4,022 in French word frequency. Often confused with solar and solide.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of solaire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for solaire is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.lɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,022 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for solaire, with forms such as "oslaire", "sloaire", and "soalire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "solar", "solide", "sourire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 solaire, spelled S-O-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oslaire,sloaire,soalire,solaier,solairre,solarie,soliare,sollaire,ssolaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for solaire

Misspelling Variants of "solaire"

oslaire7sloaire7soalire7solaier7solairre8solarie7soliare7sollaire8
Misspelling Variants of "solaire"

Frequency rank: #4,022 in French

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 adj, "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?
"solaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.