# sone vs SSE

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### 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

### SSE
*name · frequency rank #28,386*
Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sone-vs-sse