sono

noun

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The verdict

“sono” is uncommon German (frequency #56,536 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,536
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Klang, Ton, Laut, Schall

Corpus desk

Index DE-sono · sono · German

sono · rank #56,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,536
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH sow

Nearest frequency peer: sow (+2 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 „sono“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sono
PropertyValue
Headwordsono
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#56,536
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sono“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).sonofällt 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: „sow“ (#56,538), „silla“ (#56,533), „Sparschwein“ (#56,539). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sono“ bei #56,536. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sono is uncommon German at frequency #56,536 among 8,027 “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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sono appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Phonothek Intensiv estas destinita al ĉiuj, kiuj interesiĝas pri la sono de la germana lingvo.

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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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tiki#56,587Rist#56,476rena#56,469Onyx#56,404

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list