sonido

/[soˈnið̞o]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,961

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sonido is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sensación percibida por el oído causada por la vibración del aire o de otro medio. Pronounced [soˈnið̞o]. It ranks #1,961 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sonó and sordo.

Key facts for sonido
PropertyValue
Headwordsonido
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[soˈnið̞o]
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,961
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sonido in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sonido is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soˈnið̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,961 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sensación percibida por el oído causada por la vibración del aire o de otro medio.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sonido, with forms such as "osnido", "snoido", and "soindo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sonó", "sordo", "subido", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sonido, spelled S-O-N-I-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sensación percibida por el oído causada por la vibración del aire o de otro medio.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osnido,snoido,soindo,sondio,soniddo,soniod,sonnido,ssonido

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sonido

Misspelling Variants of "sonido"

osnido6snoido6soindo6sondio6soniddo7soniod6sonnido7ssonido7
Misspelling Variants of "sonido"

Frequency rank: #1,961 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sonido"?
"sonido" is spelled S-O-N-I-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [soˈnið̞o].
What does "sonido" mean?
As a noun, "sonido" means: Sensación percibida por el oído causada por la vibración del aire o de otro medio.
What words are commonly confused with "sonido"?
"sonido" is commonly confused with "sonó", "sordo", "subido". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sonido"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sonido" is [soˈnið̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sonido" come from?
"sonido" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.