solde
\sɔld\
The verdict
“solde” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,925
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paie octroyée par l’armée à un de ses membres militaires ou, par extension, un de ses employés civils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solde · solde · French
solde · rank #5,925 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,925
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soirs
Nearest frequency peer: soirs (-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 « solde »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saoudite
saoudite
94,079 corpus weight
- satellite
satellite
94,078 corpus weight
- soirs
soirs
94,077 corpus weight
- solde
solde
94,076 corpus weight
- solitude
solitude
94,075 corpus weight
- stockage
stockage
94,074 corpus weight
What this shows « solde » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔld\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « solde »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around solde (IPA \sɔld\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Paie octroyée par l’armée à un de ses membres militaires ou, par extension, un de ses employés civils.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for solde, with forms such as "oslde", "slode", and "sodle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "solo", "sols", "some", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is solde, spelled S-O-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1Paie octroyée par l’armée à un de ses membres militaires ou, par extension, un de ses employés civils.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how solde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malheureusement, les troubles avaient empêché qu’on s’occupât des finances ; l’armée était sans solde.
La solde attribuée aux personnels militaires de la Communauté européenne de défense, […] sont soumis à un règlement de solde unique, reposant sur un statut commun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oslde
- slode
- sodle
- soldde
- soled
- sollde
- ssolde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of solde - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).