sonata
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The verdict
“sonata” is uncommon German (frequency #83,308 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,308
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Sonate
Corpus desk
Index DE-sonata · sonata · German
sonata · rank #83,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,308
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonderposten
Nearest frequency peer: Sonderposten (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sonata“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- SMV
SMV
16,697 corpus weight
- solaren
solaren
16,696 corpus weight
- sonata
sonata
16,693 corpus weight
- Sonderposten
Sonderposten
16,692 corpus weight
- sonen
sonen
16,691 corpus weight
- Sonnenstand
Sonnenstand
16,690 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sonata“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonata |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sonata“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sonata is uncommon German at frequency #83,308 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Sonate".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sonata in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sonata, spelled S-O-N-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1die Sonate
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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