solanum
\sɔ.la.nɔm\
The verdict
“solanum” is uncommon French (frequency #88,111 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,111
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes de la famille des Solanées dont plusieurs espèces sont vénéneuses et dont quelques autres fournissent des racines ou tubercules comestibles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solanum · solanum · French
solanum · rank #88,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,111
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Solana
Nearest frequency peer: Solana (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « solanum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sodomites
sodomites
11,893 corpus weight
- Solana
Solana
11,891 corpus weight
- solanum
solanum
11,890 corpus weight
- sop
sop
11,889 corpus weight
- soubresaut
soubresaut
11,888 corpus weight
- soudant
soudant
11,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solanum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solanum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.la.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « solanum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
solanum is uncommon French at frequency #88,111 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.la.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de plantes de la famille des Solanées dont plusieurs espèces sont vénéneuses et dont quelques autres fournissent des racines ou tubercules comestibles.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for solanum, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is solanum, spelled S-O-L-A-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes de la famille des Solanées dont plusieurs espèces sont vénéneuses et dont quelques autres fournissent des racines ou tubercules comestibles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how solanum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces insulaires arrachent les herbes, les amoncèlent, les brûlent, et ils fertilisent ainsi la terre de leurs cendres (…). Ils cultivent aussi le solanum ou la morelle.
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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