solervssolosTell them apart

Which to use

“soler” and “solos” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,202
“soler” frequency rank
#23,374
“solos” frequency rank
71576
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soler solos
Definition Nom donné dans l’Aisne à un cépage donnant du raisin noir, le peloursin. Pluriel de solo.

Where the eye mixes soler and solos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
soler
5 ch
solos

Visual trap between soler and solos

A purely visual mix-up. soler (\sɔ.le\) and solos (\sɔ.lɔ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soler is recorded at frequency rank #48,202, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.le\. solos is at rank #23,374, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.lɔ\.

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 71576, this pair ranks #47,073 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soler vs solos

Shared letters: los. Private to "soler": er. Private to "solos": -.

"soler" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "solos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • solerosler · sloer · soelr · solerr · soller · solre · ssoler
  • solososlos · sloos · sollos · soloss · solso · sools · ssolos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "soler" for "solos" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\sɔ.le\ versus \sɔ.lɔ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "soler" or "solos" show up more?
"solos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,374 in our French list, against #48,202 for "soler". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "soler" and "solos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soler" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,073 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soler" and "solos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "socles 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 #47,073 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list