solvable

\sɔl.vabl\

/\sɔl.vabl\/ adj

The verdict

“solvable” is uncommon French (frequency #52,993 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,993
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de quoi payer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-solvable · solvable · French

solvable · rank #52,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,993
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sive

Nearest frequency peer: sive (-2 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 « solvable »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solvable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for solvable
PropertyValue
Headwordsolvable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɔl.vabl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#52,993
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « solvable » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).solvabletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « sive » (#52,991), « soupçonneux » (#52,995), « situerait » (#52,990). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « solvable » est au #52,993. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

solvable is uncommon French at frequency #52,993 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔl.vabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a de quoi payer.".

Zero misspellings are on record for solvable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is solvable, spelled S-O-L-V-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a de quoi payer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. il valait mieux vendre à monsieur Grandet, homme solvable, et capable d’ailleurs de payer la terre en argent comptant.
  2. Dans le pays dijonnais, la demande solvable de crédit est d'abord une demande de crédit à l'agriculture, ensuite une demande de crédit à la consommation, secondairement enfin une demande émanant de ceux qui se livrent au négoce.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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 "solvable"?
"solvable" is spelled S-O-L-V-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔl.vabl\.
What does "solvable" mean?
As an adjective, "solvable" means: Qui a de quoi payer.
How do you pronounce "solvable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "solvable" is \sɔl.vabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "solvable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list