soldat
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,504
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
soldat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui sert dans une armée, et reçoit une solde. Pronounced \sɔl.da\. It ranks #3,504 in French word frequency. Often confused with solde and soudan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soldat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔl.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soldat is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔl.da\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,504 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 soldat, with forms such as "osldat", "slodat", and "sodlat". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "solde", "soudan", "solder", 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 soldat, spelled S-O-L-D-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui sert dans une armée, et reçoit une solde.
- 2Grade donné dans l’Armée de terre et l’Armée de l’air françaises, situé au plus bas de la hiérarchie, correspondant au matelot dans la Marine nationale française. Le code OTAN : OR-1.
- 3Grade des Forces armées canadiennes.
- 4Celui qui n’a pas de grade.
- 5Caractère, qualités, manières de ceux qui servent dans l’armée.
- 6Celui qui sert une cause, qui combat pour elle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osldat,slodat,sodlat,soladt,soldatt,solddat,soldta,solldat,ssoldat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soldat
Misspelling Variants of "soldat"
Frequency rank: #3,504 in French
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