# Sonoma

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #24,005

## Definitions
1. A valley in northern California, United States.
2. A city in Sonoma County, California, United States, named after the eponymous valley.

## Etymology
From a Suisun language variously thought to mean "valley of the moon", "many moons", or to derive from tso (the earth) and noma (village).

## Easily confused with
- **Sonya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sonoma-vs-sonya)
- **Sonora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sonoma-vs-sonora)
- **soma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/soma-vs-sonoma)
- **sona** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sona-vs-sonoma)
- **Sonia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sonia-vs-sonoma)
- **Sonja** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sonja-vs-sonoma)
- **Sodom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sodom-vs-sonoma)
- **sonata** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sonata-vs-sonoma)
- **sodomy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sodomy-vs-sonoma)
- **señora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/senora-vs-sonoma)

## Common misspellings (8)
`osnoma`, `snooma`, `sonmoa`, `sonnoma`, `sonoam`, `sonomma`, `soonma`, `ssonoma`

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