sonner

\sɔ.ne\

/\sɔ.ne\/ verb

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The verdict

“sonner” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,075
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre un son.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sonner · sonner · French

sonner · rank #10,075 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,075
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH singes

Nearest frequency peer: singes (-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 « sonner »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sonner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sonner vs Sonny
50% similar
sonner vs souper
67% similar
sonner vs souder
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sonner
PropertyValue
Headwordsonner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɔ.ne\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,075
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sonner »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sonnerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « singes » (#10,074), « sorbonne » (#10,076), « sessions » (#10,073). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sonner » est au #10,075. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sonner (IPA \sɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,075 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sonner, with forms such as "osnner", "snoner", and "sonenr". 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, "Sonny", "souper", "souder", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sonner, spelled S-O-N-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre un son.
  2. 2
    Faire rendre des sons à des instruments à vent, comme le cor, la trompette, etc.
  3. 3
    Faire une sonnerie de cloches.
  4. 4
    Exprimer pleinement le son d’une lettre dans la prononciation, prononcer.
  5. 5
    Être indiqué, marqué, annoncé par un son.
  6. 6
    Tirer un cordon de sonnette ou pousser un bouton électrique pour se faire ouvrir, pour appeler quelqu’un.
  7. 7
    Demander l’attention de quelqu’un, souvent pour lui donner un ordre.
  8. 8
    Donner une impression en parlant d’un son ou d’un mot.
  9. 9
    Frapper pour assommer.
  10. 10
    Téléphoner à.
  11. 11
    Tirer un son de quelque chose, lui faire rendre du son. → voir sonner les cloches, sonner le glas, sonner le tocsin et sonner le clairon
  12. 12
    Indiquer, marquer ou annoncer un évènement par un son.
  13. 13
    Donner du cor, de la trompette, ou du clairon pour coordonner la chasse. → voir sonner le débuché, sonner le laisser courre et sonner l’hallali
  14. 14
    Jouer 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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] ; enfin vingt violons avaient été prévenus, et le prix qu’on leur accordait avait été fixé au double du prix ordinaire, attendu, dit ce rapport, qu’ils devaient sonner toute la nuit.
  2. Midi sonnait.

Synonyms

prononcer

This word in other languages

toll(English)sonar(Español)anläuten(Deutsch)soar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osnner
  • snoner
  • sonenr
  • soner
  • sonnerr
  • sonnre
  • ssonner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sonner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osnner2snoner2sonenr2soner1sonnerr1sonnre2ssonner1
Edit distance from "sonner"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sonner"?
"sonner" is spelled S-O-N-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.ne\.
What does "sonner" mean?
As a verb, "sonner" means: Rendre un son.
What words are commonly confused with "sonner"?
"sonner" is commonly confused with "Sonny", "souper", "souder". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sonner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sonner" is \sɔ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sonner" come from?
"sonner" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sonner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

singes#10,074souple#10,078sperme#10,079sacrés#10,070

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

resta7 variantstrahi7 variantsTunis7 variantsprice7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list