sono

noun

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The verdict

“sono” is uncommon German (frequency #56,536 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,536
frequency rank, German
107,600
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Klang, Ton, Laut, Schall

Key facts for sono
PropertyValue
Headwordsono
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#56,536
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sono” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). sono lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sono is uncommon German at frequency #56,536 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Klang, Ton, Laut, Schall".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sono, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is sono, spelled S-O-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Klang, Ton, Laut, Schall

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 "sono"?
"sono" is spelled S-O-N-O.
What does "sono" mean?
As a noun, "sono" means: Klang, Ton, Laut, Schall
What language does "sono" come from?
"sono" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “sono”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is S-O-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

Other uncommon German words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list