solus
\sɔ.ly\
The verdict
“solus” is uncommon French (frequency #80,655 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,655
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de soudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-solus · solus · French
solus · rank #80,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,655
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soko
Nearest frequency peer: soko (-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 « solus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sobotka
Sobotka
19,349 corpus weight
- soko
soko
19,347 corpus weight
- solus
solus
19,346 corpus weight
- Somalis
Somalis
19,345 corpus weight
- sommières
sommières
19,344 corpus weight
- somptueusem…
somptueusement
19,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ.ly\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « solus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
solus is uncommon French at frequency #80,655 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔ.ly\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for solus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is solus, spelled S-O-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de soudre.
- 2Première personne du singulier du passé simple de soudre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de soudre.
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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