sondage
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sondage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ̃.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de sonder un lieu, d'en mesurer la profondeur, la nature ou la composition.
- 2Résultat de la mesure obtenue par cette action.
- 3Mesure de profondeur de fonds aquatiques.
- 4Mesure et analyse faites sur un sous-sol pour en connaître sa nature.
- 5Action d'introduire une sonde dans un espace étroit et non visible par un humain.
- 6Action de sonder une population, de l'interroger pour connaître ses opinions.
- 7Enquête sur une population afin d'en retirer une impression générale ou un avis.
- 8Questionnaire destiné aux personnes interrogées.
- 9Le résultat lui-même de cette action.
- 10Technique 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,899 in French
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