solliciter

\sɔ.li.si.te\

/\sɔ.li.si.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“solliciter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,478
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inciter ou exciter à faire quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-solliciter · solliciter · French

solliciter · rank #13,478 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,478
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH solidité

Nearest frequency peer: solidité (-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 « solliciter »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « solliciter » 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).

solliciter vs sollicités
80% similar
solliciter vs sollicité
80% similar
solliciter vs sollicitée
80% similar

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

Key facts for solliciter
PropertyValue
Headwordsolliciter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɔ.li.si.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#13,478
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « solliciter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).solliciterse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « solidité » (#13,477), « souhaitable » (#13,479), « SM » (#13,476). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « solliciter » est au #13,478. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around solliciter (IPA \sɔ.li.si.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,478 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for solliciter, with forms such as "oslliciter", "sloliciter", and "soliciter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sollicités", "sollicité", "sollicitée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is solliciter, spelled S-O-L-L-I-C-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inciter ou exciter à faire quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Faire rendre à une chose plus qu’elle ne contient.
  3. 3
    Animer par des besoins physiques tels que la faim, la soif, etc.
  4. 4
    Exercer une certaine action sur les corps.
  5. 5
    Demander fortement, avec instance.
  6. 6
    Demander avec déférence les faveurs qu’on attend de personnes puissantes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La vallée de la Lanterne dans son cours supérieur et moyen est restée longtemps à peu près inexplorée, l'attention des botanistes ayant été plutôt sollicitée par les deux chaînes voisines du Jura et des Vosges ; […].
  2. Ils l’avaient sollicité d’entrer dans leur parti.

This word in other languages

solicit(English)solicitar(Español)beschwören(Deutsch)solicitar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oslliciter
  • sloliciter
  • soliciter
  • solilciter
  • sollciiter
  • sollicciter
  • sollicietr
  • solliciterr
  • sollicitre
  • sollicitter
  • sollictier
  • solliicter
  • ssolliciter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of solliciter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

oslliciter2sloliciter2soliciter1solilciter2sollciiter2sollicciter1sollicietr2solliciterr1
Edit distance from "solliciter"

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 "solliciter"?
"solliciter" is spelled S-O-L-L-I-C-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.li.si.te\.
What does "solliciter" mean?
As a verb, "solliciter" means: Inciter ou exciter à faire quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "solliciter"?
"solliciter" is commonly confused with "sollicités", "sollicité", "sollicitée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "solliciter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "solliciter" is \sɔ.li.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "solliciter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

satisfaite#13,473validation#13,486rencontrée#13,463émotionnel#13,495

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

élastique13 variantsrassemblé13 variantspèlerins13 variantsprovoquée13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list