# sate vs sone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sate
*verb · IPA /seɪt/ · frequency rank #48,469*
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

### sone
*noun · IPA /soʊn/ · frequency rank #48,495*
a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sate-vs-sone