songe

\sɔ̃ʒ\

/\sɔ̃ʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“songe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,241
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rêve, idée, imagination d’une personne qui dort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-songe · songe · French

songe · rank #10,241 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,241
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH singulier

Nearest frequency peer: singulier (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « songe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « songe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

songe vs sont
60% similar
songe vs sons
60% similar
songe vs sony
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for songe
PropertyValue
Headwordsonge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ̃ʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#10,241
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « songe »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).songese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « singulier » (#10,240), « sou » (#10,242), « sensibilisation » (#10,239). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « songe » est au #10,241. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around songe (IPA \sɔ̃ʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for songe, with forms such as "osnge", "snoge", and "sogne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sont", "sons", "sony", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is songe, spelled S-O-N-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rêve, idée, imagination d’une personne qui dort.
  2. 2
    Illusion, espérance vaine.
  3. 3
    Synonyme de colocase (à la Réunion et à l’île Maurice).
  4. 4
    en songe : en parlant des songes qu’on a eus durant le sommeil.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how songe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Saint Grégoire de Nysse, adversaire des Oniroscopes, ne voyait dans les songes qu'un ébranlement passager des facultés de l'âme, dû à un souvenir des émotions qu'on venait de ressentir, et il comparait poétiquement l'esprit de l'homme agité par un rêve à la corde de la harpe qui vient de jeter un son et qui vibre encore lorsque le son s'est évanoui.
  2. Naît alors, nourri d’un voyage en Italie de 8 ans (1770-1778), une œuvre singulière : peintures mythologiques, sujets shakespeariens, représentations de songes, avec une esthétique nouvelle, qui tend vers le fantastique, des anatomies michelangelesques, une énergie, un mouvement et un souffle hors du commun.

This word in other languages

dream(English)sueño(Español)Traum(Deutsch)sonho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osnge
  • snoge
  • sogne
  • soneg
  • songge
  • sonnge
  • ssonge

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of songe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osnge2snoge2sogne2soneg2songge1sonnge1ssonge1
Edit distance from "songe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "songe"?
"songe" is spelled S-O-N-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ̃ʒ\.
What does "songe" mean?
As a noun, "songe" means: Rêve, idée, imagination d’une personne qui dort.
What words are commonly confused with "songe"?
"songe" is commonly confused with "sont", "sons", "sony". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "songe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "songe" is \sɔ̃ʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "songe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "songe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

talon#10,252quais#10,217patte#10,206Pablo#10,204

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

relier7 variantsallées7 variantsblaise7 variantsmetro7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list