sonnant

adj

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The verdict

“sonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,139
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rend un son clair et distinct.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sonnant · sonnant · French

sonnant · rank #51,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,139
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH softball

Nearest frequency peer: softball (-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 « sonnant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sonnant
PropertyValue
Headwordsonnant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,139
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sonnant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sonnanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « softball » (#51,138), « sonnera » (#51,140), « SNSM » (#51,137). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sonnant » est au #51,139. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sonnant is uncommon French at frequency #51,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sonnant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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. The correct French form is sonnant, spelled S-O-N-N-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui rend un son clair et distinct.
  2. 2
    En parlant d'une heure, qui est tout juste en train de sonner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De l’étain sonnant. Airain sonnant.
  2. Bouquinant et flânant, je goûtais au passage quelques vers haut sonnants d’un poète de la pléiade

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 "sonnant"?
"sonnant" is spelled S-O-N-N-A-N-T.
What does "sonnant" mean?
As an adjective, "sonnant" means: Qui rend un son clair et distinct.
What language does "sonnant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sonnera#51,140Sopalin#51,141soyeuse#51,143sixties#51,134

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list