Sonne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,992
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sonne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Soleil, astre qui donne la lumière et la chaleur à la Terre. Pronounced \ˈzɔnə\. It ranks #4,992 in French word frequency. Often confused with sont and sons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzɔnə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Sonne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈzɔnə\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,992 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sonne, with forms such as "osnne", "snone", and "sone". 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, "sont", "sons", "sony", 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 Sonne, spelled S-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soleil, astre qui donne la lumière et la chaleur à la Terre.
- 2Les rayons lumineux du soleil.
- 3Hérisson de ramonage.
- 4Soleil, tout autre astre.
- 5Ce qui est très bon, aimé, positif.
- 6Tout appareil technique qui brille ou réchauffe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osnne,snone,sone,sonen,ssonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sonne
Misspelling Variants of "Sonne"
Frequency rank: #4,992 in French
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