Which to use
“soldée” and “solder” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,322
- “soldée” frequency rank
- #37,562
- “solder” frequency rank
- 82884
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soldée | solder |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de solder. | Donner une solde à des troupes, à des mercenaires. |
Same sound, different letters: soldée vs solder
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. soldée (CVCCVV) and solder (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: soldée vs solder
This is the hard kind. soldée and solder are pronounced identically (\sɔl.de\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82884, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soldée is recorded at frequency rank #45,322, classified as averb, pronounced \sɔl.de\. solder is at rank #37,562, tagged as averb, pronounced \sɔl.de\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 82884, this pair ranks #15,829 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soldée vs solder
Shared letters: delos. Private to "soldée": é. Private to "solder": r.
"soldée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "solder" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- solder ← oslder · sloder · sodler · soldder · solderr · soldre · soledr · sollder
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "soldée" and "solder" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "soldée" vs "solder" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "soldée" / "solder". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "soldée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "solder" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #15,829 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soldée" and "solder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soldée vs soler". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #15,829 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.