sonars
\sɔ.naʁ\
The verdict
“sonars” is uncommon French (frequency #84,325 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,325
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sonar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonars · sonars · French
sonars · rank #84,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,325
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH somnolent
Nearest frequency peer: somnolent (-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 « sonars »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- soumettons
soumettons
15,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonars » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonars » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonars is uncommon French at frequency #84,325 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.naʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sonar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sonars in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sonars, spelled S-O-N-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sonar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sonars appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Contrairement à d’autres types de baleines à bec, dont l’ouïe est généralement très sensible, les baleines à bec de Longman semblent moins menacées par la pollution acoustique produite par les embarcations, l’exploration gazière et pétrolière et les sonars militaires.
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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