solex
\so.lɛks\
The verdict
“solex” is uncommon French (frequency #71,071 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,071
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cyclomoteur très simple, caractérisé par le fait que le moteur est accroché au guidon et que l’entraînement est effectué directement par la friction d’un galet sur la roue avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solex · solex · French
solex · rank #71,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,071
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solarium
Nearest frequency peer: solarium (-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 « solex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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28,934 corpus weight
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skippers
28,933 corpus weight
- slice
slice
28,932 corpus weight
- solarium
solarium
28,931 corpus weight
- solex
solex
28,930 corpus weight
- somatique
somatique
28,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.lɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « solex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
solex is uncommon French at frequency #71,071 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.lɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cyclomoteur très simple, caractérisé par le fait que le moteur est accroché au guidon et que l’entraînement est effectué directement par la friction d’un galet sur la roue avant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for solex in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is solex, spelled S-O-L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Cyclomoteur très simple, caractérisé par le fait que le moteur est accroché au guidon et que l’entraînement est effectué directement par la friction d’un galet sur la roue avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how solex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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