soninké
\sɔ.nin.ke\
The verdict
“soninké” is uncommon French (frequency #77,044 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,044
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise et du sous-groupe mandé, parlée par environ un million de personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soninke · soninké · French
soninké · rank #77,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,044
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socioculturel…
Nearest frequency peer: socioculturelles (-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 « soninké »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- singleton
singleton
22,960 corpus weight
- sitcoms
sitcoms
22,959 corpus weight
- sociocultur…
socioculturelles
22,958 corpus weight
- soninké
soninké
22,957 corpus weight
- Sorin
Sorin
22,956 corpus weight
- Souillac
Souillac
22,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soninké » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soninké |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nin.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soninké » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soninké is uncommon French at frequency #77,044 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.nin.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise et du sous-groupe mandé, parlée par environ un million de personnes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for soninké in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soninké, spelled S-O-N-I-N-K-É.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise et du sous-groupe mandé, parlée par environ un million de personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soninké appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe par ailleurs des langues mandées non mandingues, dont le soninké parlé dans le nord-ouest du Mali et le soussou de Guinée maritime.
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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