sonda
Spanish, noun
sonda is spelled S-O-N-D-A (5 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,858th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonda is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “probe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of sondar. With an accent, sondá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of sondar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Plomada o vara utilizada en los navíos para medir la profundidad del agua”.
What does sonda mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprobe
- 2
femininecatheter, tube
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of sondar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plomada o vara utilizada en los navíos para medir la profundidad del agua. 2. Barreno que se utiliza para introducir en el suelo taladros a gran profundidad. 3. Dícese de los instrumentos tubulares flexibles que se introducen en el cuerpo, sea por los orificios naturales o de forma intramuscular, con fines diagnósticos o terapéuticos. 4. Nave espacial no tripulada que tiene como fin la obtención de datos de cuerpos celestes o regiones espaciales.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sonda
- sondas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sonda
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonda in Spanish?
sonda appears 4.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).