sonner
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,075
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sonner is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre un son. Pronounced \sɔ.ne\. Often confused with Sonny and souper.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sonner is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,075 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sonner, with forms such as "osnner", "snoner", and "sonenr". 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, "Sonny", "souper", "souder", 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 sonner, spelled S-O-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre un son.
- 2Faire rendre des sons à des instruments à vent, comme le cor, la trompette, etc.
- 3Faire une sonnerie de cloches.
- 4Exprimer pleinement le son d’une lettre dans la prononciation, prononcer.
- 5Être indiqué, marqué, annoncé par un son.
- 6Tirer un cordon de sonnette ou pousser un bouton électrique pour se faire ouvrir, pour appeler quelqu’un.
- 7Demander l’attention de quelqu’un, souvent pour lui donner un ordre.
- 8Donner une impression en parlant d’un son ou d’un mot.
- 9Frapper pour assommer.
- 10Téléphoner à.
- 11Tirer un son de quelque chose, lui faire rendre du son. → voir sonner les cloches, sonner le glas, sonner le tocsin et sonner le clairon
- 12Indiquer, marquer ou annoncer un évènement par un son.
- 13Donner du cor, de la trompette, ou du clairon pour coordonner la chasse. → voir sonner le débuché, sonner le laisser courre et sonner l’hallali
- 14Jouer d’un instrument (trompette, clairon, tambour, …) pour coordonner les mouvements de troupe. → voir sonner à cheval, sonner le réveil, sonner l’extinction des feux, sonner la charge et sonner la retraite
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osnner,snoner,sonenr,soner,sonnerr,sonnre,ssonner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sonner
Misspelling Variants of "sonner"
Frequency rank: #10,075 in French
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