soleil couchant
The verdict
“soleil couchant” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Le Soleil quand il est près de descendre sous l’horizon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soleil couchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.lɛj ku.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “soleil couchant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soleil couchant is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.lɛj ku.ʃɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for soleil couchant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 soleil couchant, spelled S-O-L-E-I-L- -C-O-U-C-H-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le Soleil quand il est près de descendre sous l’horizon.
- 2Meuble représentant dans les armoiries un soleil partiellement visible comme mouvant de l’angle senestre du chef. À rapprocher de ombre de soleil, soleil, soleil éclipsé, soleil éteint, soleil levant, soleil non figuré, soleil rayonnant, soleil vidé et soleil virgulé.
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Using “soleil couchant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-L-E-I-L- -C-O-U-C-H-A-N-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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