Sonne
\ˈzɔnə\
The verdict
“Sonne” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,992. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,992
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soleil, astre qui donne la lumière et la chaleur à la Terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonne · Sonne · French
Sonne · rank #4,992 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,992
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sols
Nearest frequency peer: sols (-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 « Sonne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sauvages
sauvages
95,012 corpus weight
- sensibles
sensibles
95,011 corpus weight
- sols
sols
95,010 corpus weight
- Sonne
Sonne
95,009 corpus weight
- spécialisée
spécialisée
95,008 corpus weight
- spéciaux
spéciaux
95,007 corpus weight
What this shows « Sonne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sonne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Sonne (IPA \ˈzɔnə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,992 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sonne, with forms such as "osnne", "snone", and "sone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sonne, spelled S-O-N-N-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Sonne scheint.
(...) Dieses Problem entsteht nicht durch die Deutschen (die überall hinfahren, wo die Sonne scheint) und noch weniger durch die Italiener (die überall hinfahren, wo es schöne Ärsche gibt); über die Franzosen wollen wir lieber schweigen.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osnne
- snone
- sone
- sonen
- ssonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sonne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).