sondage

/\sɔ̃.daʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,899

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

sondage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de sonder un lieu, d'en mesurer la profondeur, la nature ou la composition. Pronounced \sɔ̃.daʒ\. It ranks #2,899 in French word frequency. Often confused with sonde and songe.

Key facts for sondage
PropertyValue
Headwordsondage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ̃.daʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,899
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sondage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sondage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ̃.daʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,899 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sondage, with forms such as "osndage", "snodage", and "sodnage". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sonde", "songe", "soulagé", 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 French form is sondage, spelled S-O-N-D-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de sonder un lieu, d'en mesurer la profondeur, la nature ou la composition.
  2. 2
    Résultat de la mesure obtenue par cette action.
  3. 3
    Mesure de profondeur de fonds aquatiques.
  4. 4
    Mesure et analyse faites sur un sous-sol pour en connaître sa nature.
  5. 5
    Action d'introduire une sonde dans un espace étroit et non visible par un humain.
  6. 6
    Action de sonder une population, de l'interroger pour connaître ses opinions.
  7. 7
    Enquête sur une population afin d'en retirer une impression générale ou un avis.
  8. 8
    Questionnaire destiné aux personnes interrogées.
  9. 9
    Le résultat lui-même de cette action.
  10. 10
    Technique d'exploration limitée dans l'espace et le temps qui a pour but de détecter la présence d'éléments pertinents et exploitables sur un plan historique.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osndage,snodage,sodnage,sonadge,sondaeg,sondagge,sonddage,sondgae,sonndage,ssondage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sondage

Misspelling Variants of "sondage"

osndage7snodage7sodnage7sonadge7sondaeg7sondagge8sonddage8sondgae7
Misspelling Variants of "sondage"

Frequency rank: #2,899 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sondage"?
"sondage" is spelled S-O-N-D-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ̃.daʒ\.
What does "sondage" mean?
As a noun, "sondage" means: Action de sonder un lieu, d'en mesurer la profondeur, la nature ou la composition.
What words are commonly confused with "sondage"?
"sondage" is commonly confused with "sonde", "songe", "soulagé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sondage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sondage" is \sɔ̃.daʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sondage" come from?
"sondage" is a French 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.