Système solaire
\sis.tɛm sɔ.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“Système solaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le Soleil et l’ensemble des corps célestes gravitant autour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Système solaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sis.tɛm sɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Système solaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Système solaire is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sis.tɛm sɔ.lɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Système solaire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Système solaire, spelled S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -S-O-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le Soleil et l’ensemble des corps célestes gravitant autour.
- 2Partie de l’espace où se ressentent les effets du vent solaire (système solaire magnétique) et de l’attraction gravitationnelle du Soleil (système solaire gravitationnel).
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -S-O-L-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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