sonne
"sonne" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sonne” is uncommon English (frequency #65,516 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,516
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of son.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sonne · sonne · English
sonne · rank #65,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,516
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soju
Nearest frequency peer: soju (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “sonne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Smolensk
Smolensk
34,492 corpus weight
- SMTP
SMTP
34,491 corpus weight
- snowpack
snowpack
34,490 corpus weight
- socialistic
socialistic
34,488 corpus weight
- soju
soju
34,486 corpus weight
- sonne
sonne
34,485 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sonne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sonne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sonne is uncommon English at frequency #65,516 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of son.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sonne in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is sonne, spelled S-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of son.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And when I roſe in the moꝛning to giue my childe ſucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had conſidered it in the moꝛning, beholde, it was not my ſonne, which I did beare.
19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby She moved where Lindis wandereth, My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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