somnolent
\sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“somnolent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,324 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,324
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui somnole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somnolent · somnolent · French
somnolent · rank #84,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,324
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SNE
Nearest frequency peer: SNE (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « somnolent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- slopestyle
slopestyle
15,681 corpus weight
- SMTP
SMTP
15,679 corpus weight
- SNE
SNE
15,678 corpus weight
- somnolent
somnolent
15,677 corpus weight
- sonars
sonars
15,676 corpus weight
- Sorrente
Sorrente
15,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « somnolent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somnolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « somnolent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
somnolent is uncommon French at frequency #84,324 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for somnolent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is somnolent, spelled S-O-M-N-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui somnole.
- 2Qui tient de la somnolence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how somnolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il buvait beaucoup, c'était vrai, de la bière, des demis et des demis, qui le rendaient somnolent.
Mais dans les 24-36 heures qui suivirent l’administration du visnagan, les rats se sont montrés déprimés, somnolents, présentant une anorexie et un retard évident du transit intestinal et, parfois, une chromodacryorrhée et une sécrétion nasale hémorragique.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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