# sofa vs sone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sofa
*noun · IPA /ˈsəʊfə/ · frequency rank #9,540*
A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

### 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.
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