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

#26,545
“sollicitation” frequency rank
#21,773
“sollicitations” frequency rank
48318
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sollicitation sollicitations
Definition Invite susceptible d’entraîner une réaction par tentation insistante. Pluriel de sollicitation.

Same sound, different letters: sollicitation vs sollicitations

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. sollicitation runs 13 letters (CVCCVCVCVCVVC) against sollicitations's 14 (CVCCVCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch
sollicitation
14 ch
sollicitations

Same sound, different spelling - sollicitation / sollicitations

This is the hard kind. sollicitation and sollicitations are pronounced identically (\sɔ.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “sollicitation” sits inside “sollicitations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48318, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sollicitation is recorded at frequency rank #26,545, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃\. sollicitations is at rank #21,773, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃\.

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 48318, this pair ranks #179,854 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sollicitation vs sollicitations

Shared letters: acilnost. Private to "sollicitation": -. Private to "sollicitations": -.

"sollicitation" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVC  ·  "sollicitations" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sollicitation ← osllicitation · slolicitation · solicitation · solilcitation · sollciitation · solliccitation · solliciattion · sollicitaiton
  • sollicitations ← osllicitations · slolicitations · solicitations · solilcitations · sollciitations · solliccitations · solliciattions · sollicitaitons

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sollicitation" and "sollicitations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sɔ.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "sollicitation" vs "sollicitations" - which ranks higher?
"sollicitations" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,773 in our French list, against #26,545 for "sollicitation". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "sollicitation" / "sollicitations". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sollicitation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sollicitations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,854 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #179,854 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