sole

\sɔl\

/\sɔl\/ noun

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The verdict

“sole” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,037
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie inférieure creuse du sabot.  ^([1])

Corpus desk

Index FR-sole · sole · French

sole · rank #24,037 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,037
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH smiley

Nearest frequency peer: smiley (-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 « sole »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sole » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sole vs son
50% similar
sole vs sou
50% similar
sole vs ste
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sole
PropertyValue
Headwordsole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔl\
Letters4
Frequency rank#24,037
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sole »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).solese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « smiley » (#24,036), « Soral » (#24,038), « simpliste » (#24,035). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sole » est au #24,037. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around sole (IPA \sɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,037 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sole, with forms such as "osle", "sloe", and "soel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "sou", "ste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 sole, spelled S-O-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie inférieure creuse du sabot.  ^([1])
  2. 2
    Pièce de terre soumise à l’assolement.
  3. 3
    Pièce de bois posée à plat dans une charpente.
  4. 4
    Pièce de bois soutenant les étais d’une mine.
  5. 5
    Paroi inférieure (le « plancher ») d’un four.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme tout le monde le sait, les terres à labour dans l’assolement de trois ans, sont divisées en trois parties, trois soles : une sole en jachère, une sole en blé, et une sole moitié en avoine, moitié en cultures fourragères, fèves et warrats.
  2. Ce labour d’hiver, une fois abandonné à lui-même, permet de considérer la sole qui doit être occupée l’année suivante par l’avoine comme étant en partie jachérée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osle
  • sloe
  • soel
  • solle
  • ssole

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sole - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

osle2sloe2soel2solle1ssole1
Edit distance from "sole"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sole"?
"sole" is spelled S-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔl\.
What does "sole" mean?
As a noun, "sole" means: Partie inférieure creuse du sabot.  ^([1])
What words are commonly confused with "sole"?
"sole" is commonly confused with "son", "sou", "ste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sole" is \sɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sole" come from?
"sole" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sole", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aune#24,115nemo#23,957bolt#24,130maur#23,932

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

raies5 variantsnomma5 variantsMonnet5 variantsDiop5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list