Solutré
\so.ly.tʁe\
The verdict
“Solutré” is uncommon French (frequency #96,393 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,393
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme courte du nom de la commune de Solutré-Pouilly (Saône-et-Loire).
Corpus desk
Index FR-solutre · Solutré · French
Solutré · rank #96,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,393
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Solenn
Nearest frequency peer: Solenn (-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 « Solutré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soldado
soldado
3,611 corpus weight
- soldera
soldera
3,610 corpus weight
- Solenn
Solenn
3,609 corpus weight
- Solutré
Solutré
3,608 corpus weight
- Sontag
Sontag
3,607 corpus weight
- Sopot
Sopot
3,606 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Solutré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Solutré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \so.ly.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Solutré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Solutré is uncommon French at frequency #96,393 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \so.ly.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme courte du nom de la commune de Solutré-Pouilly (Saône-et-Loire).".
Solutré doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Solutré, spelled S-O-L-U-T-R-É.
Definition
- 1Forme courte du nom de la commune de Solutré-Pouilly (Saône-et-Loire).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Solutré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le paléolithique supérieur débute avec l’aurignacien (industrie d’Aurignac, Haute-Garonne), se continue par le solutréen (industrie de Solutré, Saône-et-Loire}, et s’achève par le Magdalénien (industrie de la Madeleine, Dordogne).
Mise en évidence par Gabriel de Mortillet, en 1872, la culture solutréenne doit son nom au gisement préhistorique découvert en 1866 au pied de la roche bourguignonne de Solutré, non loin de Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire).
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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