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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sonata“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sonata
PropertyValue
Headwordsonata
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#83,308
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sonata“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).sonatafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Sonderposten“ (#83,309), „sonen“ (#83,310), „solaren“ (#83,305). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sonata“ bei #83,308. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    die 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sonata"?
"sonata" is spelled S-O-N-A-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sonata" mean?
As a noun, "sonata" means: die Sonate
How do you pronounce "sonata"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sonata", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list