Which to use
“soliste” and “solistes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,815
- “soliste” frequency rank
- #35,731
- “solistes” frequency rank
- 66546
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soliste | solistes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui, celle qui exécute un solo. | Pluriel de soliste. |
Same sound, different letters: soliste vs solistes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. soliste runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against solistes's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - soliste and solistes
This is the hard kind. soliste and solistes are pronounced identically (\sɔ.list\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “soliste” sits inside “solistes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soliste is recorded at frequency rank #30,815, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.list\. solistes is at rank #35,731, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.list\.
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 66546, this pair ranks #67,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soliste vs solistes
Shared letters: eilost. Private to "soliste": -. Private to "solistes": -.
"soliste" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "solistes" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "soliste" and "solistes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "soliste" vs "solistes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "soliste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "solistes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #67,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soliste" and "solistes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "solistes vs stylistes". 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 #67,333 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.