sol
/sɔl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die."
- "Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you."
- "This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker."
- "Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money."
- "It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]"
- "The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour."
Etymology
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sɔl/
- British English: /sɒl/