solfège
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,538
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
solfège is aFrenchnoun. It means: Art de solfier. On distingue le solfège parlé, dans lequel les notes sont simplement énoncées, du solfège chanté, dans lesquelles elles sont chantées. Pronounced \sɔl.fɛʒ\. Often confused with soldée and Solange.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solfège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔl.fɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for solfège is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔl.fɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,538 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for solfège, with forms such as "oslfège", "slofège", and "soflège". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "soldée", "Solange", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 solfège, spelled S-O-L-F-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Art de solfier. On distingue le solfège parlé, dans lequel les notes sont simplement énoncées, du solfège chanté, dans lesquelles elles sont chantées.
- 2Recueil de leçons de musique vocale, dans lequel les difficultés du chant sont graduées.
- 3cours de formation musicale, incluant en général l’apprentissage de la théorie de la musique classique (notation musicale, formation des gammes, des accords, notions d’harmonie…), la connaissance des instruments de l’orchestre, la lecture de note et rythmique (le solfège à proprement parler) et le travail de l’oreille (chant, dictée musicale).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oslfège,slofège,soflège,solfege,solffège,solfgèe,solfèeg,solfègge,sollfège,solèfge,ssolfège
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "solfège"
Frequency rank: #38,538 in French
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