sone
\sɔn\
The verdict
“sone” is uncommon French (frequency #98,505 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,505
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de la sensation sonore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sone · sone · French
sone · rank #98,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,505
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sombrant
Nearest frequency peer: sombrant (-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 « sone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- socialos
socialos
1,501 corpus weight
- sociofinanc…
sociofinancement
1,500 corpus weight
- sombrant
sombrant
1,497 corpus weight
- sone
sone
1,496 corpus weight
- Sorrento
Sorrento
1,494 corpus weight
- spirites
spirites
1,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sone is uncommon French at frequency #98,505 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de la sensation sonore.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sone in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sone, spelled S-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de la sensation sonore.
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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