songes

\sɔ̃ʒ\

/\sɔ̃ʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“songes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,154
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de songe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-songes · songes · French

songes · rank #29,154 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,154
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH solvabilité

Nearest frequency peer: solvabilité (-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 « songes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « songes » 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).

songes vs sons
67% similar
songes vs Sonne
50% similar
songes vs Songs
67% similar

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

Key facts for songes
PropertyValue
Headwordsonges
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ̃ʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#29,154
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « songes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.songesse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « solvabilité » (#29,153), « sophistiquée » (#29,155), « Solomon » (#29,152). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « songes » est au #29,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around songes (IPA \sɔ̃ʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,154 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de songe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for songes, with forms such as "osnges", "snoges", and "sognes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sons", "Sonne", "Songs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented 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 songes, spelled S-O-N-G-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de songe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osnges
  • snoges
  • sognes
  • sonegs
  • songess
  • songges
  • songse
  • sonnges
  • ssonges

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of songes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osnges2snoges2sognes2sonegs2songess1songges1songse2sonnges1
Edit distance from "songes"

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 "songes"?
"songes" is spelled S-O-N-G-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ̃ʒ\.
What does "songes" mean?
As a noun, "songes" means: Pluriel de songe.
What words are commonly confused with "songes"?
"songes" is commonly confused with "sons", "Sonne", "Songs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "songes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "songes" is \sɔ̃ʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "songes" come from?
"songes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list