sollicitéesvssolliciterTell them apart

Quick tell: sollicitées is a adjective, solliciter is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sollicitées” is an adjective and “solliciter” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#41,541
“sollicitées” frequency rank
#13,478
“solliciter” frequency rank
55019
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sollicitées solliciter
Definition Féminin pluriel de sollicité. Inciter ou exciter à faire quelque chose.

Same sound, different letters: sollicitées vs solliciter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. sollicitées runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against solliciter's 10 (CVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
sollicitées
10 ch
solliciter

Ear matches; page differs - sollicitées and solliciter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: sollicitées and solliciter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sɔ.li.si.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55019, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sollicitées is recorded at frequency rank #41,541, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɔ.li.si.te\. solliciter is at rank #13,478, tagged as averb, pronounced \sɔ.li.si.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 55019, this pair ranks #130,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sollicitées vs solliciter

Shared letters: ceilost. Private to "sollicitées": é. Private to "solliciter": r.

"sollicitées" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC  ·  "solliciter" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • solliciter ← oslliciter · sloliciter · soliciter · solilciter · sollciiter · sollicciter · sollicietr · solliciterr

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sollicitées" and "solliciter" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sollicitées" is an adjective and "solliciter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sollicitées" or "solliciter"?
"solliciter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,478 in our French list, against #41,541 for "sollicitées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sollicitées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solliciter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #130,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sollicitées" and "solliciter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sollicitées vs sollicitent". 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 #130,173 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