solitude

\sɔ.li.tyd\

/\sɔ.li.tyd\/ noun

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The verdict

“solitude” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,926
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne qui est seule, qui est retirée du commerce du monde.

Corpus desk

Index FR-solitude · solitude · French

solitude · rank #5,926 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,926
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH solde

Nearest frequency peer: solde (-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 « solitude »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « solitude » 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).

solitude vs solitudes
89% similar
solitude vs solide
75% similar

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

Key facts for solitude
PropertyValue
Headwordsolitude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.li.tyd\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,926
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « solitude »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.solitudese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « solde » (#5,925), « stockage » (#5,927), « soirs » (#5,924). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « solitude » est au #5,926. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around solitude (IPA \sɔ.li.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,926 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for solitude, with forms such as "oslitude", "sloitude", and "soiltude". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "solitudes", "solide", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 solitude, spelled S-O-L-I-T-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’une personne qui est seule, qui est retirée du commerce du monde.
  2. 2
    Sentiment d'être seul ou abandonné.
  3. 3
    Lieu éloigné du commerce, de la vue, de la fréquentation des hommes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les hommes peuvent être considérés dans l’état de solitude et dans l’état de multitude.
  2. Parfois, dans sa solitude désolée, elle se mettait à chanter les complaintes qu’il avait aimées, et alors elle pleurait, entrecoupant de sanglots déchirants les couplets mélancoliques, […].

Antonyms

ensemblitéensemblitudeasolitude

This word in other languages

solitude(English)soledad(Español)Einsamkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oslitude
  • sloitude
  • soiltude
  • solitdue
  • solittude
  • solitudde
  • solitued
  • soliutde
  • sollitude
  • soltiude
  • ssolitude

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of solitude - 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.

oslitude2sloitude2soiltude2solitdue2solittude1solitudde1solitued2soliutde2
Edit distance from "solitude"

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 "solitude"?
"solitude" is spelled S-O-L-I-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.li.tyd\.
What does "solitude" mean?
As a noun, "solitude" means: État d’une personne qui est seule, qui est retirée du commerce du monde.
What words are commonly confused with "solitude"?
"solitude" is commonly confused with "solitudes", "solide". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "solitude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "solitude" is \sɔ.li.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "solitude" come from?
"solitude" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

stockage#5,927surfaces#5,929saoudite#5,922suspendu#5,930

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

satellite11 variantsrégimes11 variantspensant11 variantsdiscret11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list