sollicitude
\sɔ.li.si.tyd\
The verdict
“sollicitude” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,047
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soin affectueux que l’on a pour quelqu’un, ensemble des égards, des soins attentifs dont on l’entoure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sollicitude · sollicitude · French
sollicitude · rank #38,047 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,047
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Soho
Nearest frequency peer: Soho (-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 « sollicitude »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- shape
shape
61,957 corpus weight
- sobrement
sobrement
61,956 corpus weight
- Soho
Soho
61,955 corpus weight
- sollicitude
sollicitude
61,954 corpus weight
- somnifères
somnifères
61,953 corpus weight
- speak
speak
61,952 corpus weight
What this shows « sollicitude » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sollicitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.li.si.tyd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sollicitude »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sollicitude (IPA \sɔ.li.si.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,047 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sollicitude, with forms such as "osllicitude", "slolicitude", and "solicitude". 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, "sollicité", "sollicitée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sollicitude, spelled S-O-L-L-I-C-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Soin affectueux que l’on a pour quelqu’un, ensemble des égards, des soins attentifs dont on l’entoure.
- 2Souci ; soin inquiet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sollicitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soin excessif de sa toilette, des bottines de velours, une collerette de dentelles, le châle mis droit, tout attestait la sollicitude de Modeste pour sa mère.
[…], les moutons sont l’objet de toute la sollicitude des cultivateurs, et l’on y voit de grands troupeaux de mérinos, remarquables par leur bonne conformation et l’abondance et la finesse de leurs toisons […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osllicitude
- slolicitude
- solicitude
- solilcitude
- sollciitude
- solliccitude
- sollicitdue
- sollicittude
- sollicitudde
- sollicitued
- solliciutde
- sollictiude
- solliictude
- ssollicitude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sollicitude - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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