sollicitervssollicitésWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#13,478
“solliciter” frequency rank
#23,373
“sollicités” frequency rank
36851
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature solliciter sollicités
Definition Inciter ou exciter à faire quelque chose. Masculin pluriel de sollicité.

Same sound, different letters: solliciter vs sollicités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. solliciter and sollicités follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
solliciter
10 ch
sollicités

Ear matches; page differs - solliciter and sollicités

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: solliciter and sollicités carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sɔ.li.si.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

solliciter is recorded at frequency rank #13,478, classified as averb, pronounced \sɔ.li.si.te\. sollicités is at rank #23,373, tagged as anadj, 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 36851, this pair ranks #266,701 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of solliciter vs sollicités

Shared letters: cilost. Private to "solliciter": er. Private to "sollicités": é.

"solliciter" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC  ·  "sollicités" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "solliciter" for "sollicités" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "solliciter" is a verb and "sollicités" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "solliciter" or "sollicités"?
"solliciter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,478 in our French list, against #23,373 for "sollicités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "solliciter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sollicités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #266,701 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "solliciter" and "sollicités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sollicitées vs sollicités". 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 #266,701 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