Sonett
[zoˈnɛt]
The verdict
“Sonett” is uncommon German (frequency #69,717 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,717
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Gedichtform bestehend aus 14 Verszeilen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sonett · Sonett · German
Sonett · rank #69,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,717
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonderschulen
Nearest frequency peer: Sonderschulen (-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 „Sonett“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Somalier
Somalier
30,287 corpus weight
- somalischen
somalischen
30,286 corpus weight
- Sonderschul…
Sonderschulen
30,285 corpus weight
- Sonett
Sonett
30,284 corpus weight
- Sonnenuhr
Sonnenuhr
30,283 corpus weight
- spanischem
spanischem
30,282 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sonett“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sonett |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zoˈnɛt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sonett“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sonett is uncommon German at frequency #69,717 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zoˈnɛt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Gedichtform bestehend aus 14 Verszeilen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sonett in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Sonett, spelled S-O-N-E-T-T.
Definition
- 1eine Gedichtform bestehend aus 14 Verszeilen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sonett appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
William Shakespeare schrieb auch einen Zyklus von 154 Sonetten, der 1609 erschien.
„Wenn ich Sonette lese, bekomme ich auch immer gleich Schluckauf.“
This word in other languages
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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