songes

/\sɔ̃ʒ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,154

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

songes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de songe. Pronounced \sɔ̃ʒ\. Often confused with sons and Sonne.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for songes is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,154 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de songe.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for songes, with forms such as "osnges", "snoges", and "sognes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sons", "Sonne", "Songs", 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 songes, spelled S-O-N-G-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de songe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osnges,snoges,sognes,sonegs,songess,songges,songse,sonnges,ssonges

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for songes

Misspelling Variants of "songes"

osnges6snoges6sognes6sonegs6songess7songges7songse6sonnges7
Misspelling Variants of "songes"

Frequency rank: #29,154 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.