sonnet
\sɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“sonnet” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,070
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage de poésie, composé de quatorze vers distribués en deux quatrains sur deux rimes seulement et en deux tercets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonnet · sonnet · French
sonnet · rank #37,070 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,070
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH someone
Nearest frequency peer: someone (-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 « sonnet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sloan
Sloan
62,934 corpus weight
- soignées
soignées
62,933 corpus weight
- someone
someone
62,932 corpus weight
- sonnet
sonnet
62,931 corpus weight
- souffraient
souffraient
62,930 corpus weight
- soupçonnait
soupçonnait
62,929 corpus weight
What this shows « sonnet » 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 | sonnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sonnet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sonnet (IPA \sɔ.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ouvrage de poésie, composé de quatorze vers distribués en deux quatrains sur deux rimes seulement et en deux tercets.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sonnet, with forms such as "osnnet", "snonet", and "sonet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sont", "Sonny", "soumet", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sonnet, spelled S-O-N-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de poésie, composé de quatorze vers distribués en deux quatrains sur deux rimes seulement et en deux tercets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sonnet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oronte : Voilà qui va fort bien, et je crois vous entendre. Mais ne puis-je savoir ce que dans mon sonnet… Alceste : Franchement, il est bon à mettre au cabinet ; Vous vous êtes réglé sur de méchants modèles, Et vos expressions ne sont point naturelles.
Il lui offrit son volume des Orfraies, recueil de sonnets, comme nous en avons tous fait et tous lu, dans le temps où nous avions le jugement si court et les cheveux si longs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osnnet
- snonet
- sonet
- sonnett
- sonnte
- ssonnet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sonnet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).