solidairevssoliditéConfusable pair

Quick tell: solidaire is a adjective, solidité is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“solidaire” is an adjective and “solidité” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,611
“solidaire” frequency rank
#13,477
“solidité” frequency rank
19088
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature solidaire solidité
Definition Qui est commun à plusieurs personnes, en obligeant chacune directement au paiement de la somme totale. Caractère de ce qui est solide, stable, ferme, fort.

Where the eye mixes solidaire and solidité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

9 ch
solidaire
8 ch
solidité

Look-alike desk: solidaire vs solidité

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: solidaire is \sɔ.li.dɛʁ\ while solidité is \sɔ.li.di.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19088, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

solidaire is recorded at frequency rank #5,611, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɔ.li.dɛʁ\. solidité is at rank #13,477, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.li.di.te\.

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 19088, this pair ranks #375,076 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of solidaire vs solidité

Shared letters: dilos. Private to "solidaire": aer. Private to "solidité": .

"solidaire" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCV  ·  "solidité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • solidaireoslidaire · sloidaire · soildaire · soldiaire · soliadire · solidaier · solidairre · solidarie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "solidaire" for "solidité" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "solidaire" is an adjective and "solidité" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "solidaire" or "solidité"?
"solidaire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,611 in our French list, against #13,477 for "solidité". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "solidaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solidité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #375,076 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "solidaire" and "solidité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "salinité vs solidité". 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 #375,076 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