sonnée
\sɔ.ne\
The verdict
“sonnée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de sonné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonnee · sonnée · French
sonnée · rank #52,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommations
Nearest frequency peer: sommations (-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 « sonnée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solutionner
solutionner
47,649 corpus weight
- sommations
sommations
47,647 corpus weight
- sonnée
sonnée
47,646 corpus weight
- Sonya
Sonya
47,645 corpus weight
- Soubise
Soubise
47,644 corpus weight
- soudaines
soudaines
47,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonnée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonnée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonnée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonnée is uncommon French at frequency #52,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de sonné.".
sonnée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sonnée, spelled S-O-N-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de sonné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sonnée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pratiquement, il dut porter Fay jusqu’à la porte; elle était complètement désaoulée, mais tellement sonnée qu’elle tenait à peine sur ses jambes.
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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