sonné
French, adjective
sonné is spelled S-O-N-N-É (5 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonné is a French adjective meaning “groggy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of sonner. Without its accent, sonne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Révolu”.
What does sonné mean in English?
adjective
- 1
groggy
- 2
shattered
- 3
stunned, knocked out
- 4
colloquialnuts, barmy
verb
- 1
past participle of sonner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Révolu. 2. Qui est étourdi par un coup, un choc, en parlant d’un boxeur, d’un lutteur, etc. 3. Stupéfait, abasourdi.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sonné
- sonnée feminine
- sonnés masculine plural
- sonnées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sonné in French?
sonné appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).