Solesmes
\sɔ.lɛm\
The verdict
“Solesmes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,523 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,523
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solesmes · Solesmes · French
Solesmes · rank #65,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,523
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Soignies
Nearest frequency peer: Soignies (-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 « Solesmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- smartwatch
smartwatch
34,482 corpus weight
- sociocultur…
socioculturel
34,480 corpus weight
- Soignies
Soignies
34,479 corpus weight
- Solesmes
Solesmes
34,478 corpus weight
- sombrent
sombrent
34,476 corpus weight
- songerait
songerait
34,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Solesmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Solesmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Solesmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Solesmes is uncommon French at frequency #65,523 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɔ.lɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Solesmes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Solesmes, spelled S-O-L-E-S-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Sarthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Solesmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quitté Solesmes où j’aurais voulu rester plus longtemps, mais d’où le froid m’a chassé.
Jean Pradelle alla passer quelques jours à Solesmes avec des camarades.
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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