sonata
\səˈnɑːtə\
The verdict
“sonata” is uncommon French (frequency #63,368 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,368
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonata · sonata · French
sonata · rank #63,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommée
Nearest frequency peer: sommée (-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 « sonata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solvables
solvables
36,636 corpus weight
- sommités
sommités
36,635 corpus weight
- sommée
sommée
36,634 corpus weight
- sonata
sonata
36,633 corpus weight
- songeais
songeais
36,632 corpus weight
- sophiste
sophiste
36,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \səˈnɑːtə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonata is uncommon French at frequency #63,368 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \səˈnɑːtə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sonate.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sonata, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 sonata, spelled S-O-N-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Sonate.
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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