solvable
\sɔl.vabl\
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
- situerait
situerait
47,011 corpus weight
- sive
sive
47,010 corpus weight
- solvable
solvable
47,008 corpus weight
- soupçonneux
soupçonneux
47,006 corpus weight
- soutiendrai
soutiendrai
47,005 corpus weight
- spartan
spartan
47,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « solvable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solvable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔl.vabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « solvable » en français
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
- 1Qui a de quoi payer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how solvable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
il valait mieux vendre à monsieur Grandet, homme solvable, et capable d’ailleurs de payer la terre en argent comptant.
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.
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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.
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