# sol vs sone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sol
*noun · IPA /sɒl/ · frequency rank #11,466*
In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.

### 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: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sol-vs-sone