Soulac
\su.lak\
The verdict
“Soulac” is uncommon French (frequency #93,267 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,267
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant de Soulac-sur-Mer, commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soulac · Soulac · French
Soulac · rank #93,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,267
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souciera
Nearest frequency peer: souciera (-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 « Soulac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solénoïde
solénoïde
6,737 corpus weight
- sordo
sordo
6,736 corpus weight
- souciera
souciera
6,735 corpus weight
- Soulac
Soulac
6,734 corpus weight
- soupçonnons
soupçonnons
6,733 corpus weight
- souvenaient
souvenaient
6,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Soulac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Soulac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \su.lak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Soulac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Soulac is uncommon French at frequency #93,267 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \su.lak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom courant de Soulac-sur-Mer, commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Soulac in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Soulac, spelled S-O-U-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Nom courant de Soulac-sur-Mer, commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Soulac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ces dix dernières années, la mer a gagné sur ce point 57 mètres, et nous allons voir tantôt à Soulac une maison qui était, il y a cent ans, à 1,800 mètres du rivage, et qui maintenant n’en est plus qu’à 800 mètres.
Elle ne connaissait que les pins de Soulac, souffletés par la mer, auprès desquels ceux de Maltaverne ressemblaient à des géants.
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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