solarium
\sɔ.la.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“solarium” is uncommon French (frequency #71,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,070
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement où l'on traite certaines affections par la lumière solaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solarium · solarium · French
solarium · rank #71,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,070
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slice
Nearest frequency peer: slice (-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 « solarium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- skeleton
skeleton
28,934 corpus weight
- skippers
skippers
28,933 corpus weight
- slice
slice
28,932 corpus weight
- solarium
solarium
28,931 corpus weight
- solex
solex
28,930 corpus weight
- somatique
somatique
28,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solarium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solarium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.la.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « solarium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
solarium is uncommon French at frequency #71,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.la.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
solarium has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is solarium, spelled S-O-L-A-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Établissement où l'on traite certaines affections par la lumière solaire.
- 2Emplacement aménagé pour les bains de soleil.
- 3Terrasse ou salle largement vitrée exposée au soleil pour ces traitements.
- 4Établissement où l'on peut se faire bronzer.
- 5Banc solaire ou machine à bronzer.
- 6Lieu d'exposition au soleil pour les animaux à sang froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how solarium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire une cure de soleil dans un solarium.
En 1952, la clinique se voit adjoindre un nouveau pavillon, plus moderne que la maison initiale, qui comporte onze chambres et un solarium.
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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