sonnettes
\sɔ.nɛt\
The verdict
“sonnettes” is uncommon French (frequency #54,915 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,915
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sonnette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonnettes · sonnettes · French
sonnettes · rank #54,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,915
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonna
Nearest frequency peer: sonna (-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 « sonnettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solubilité
solubilité
45,089 corpus weight
- somalienne
somalienne
45,088 corpus weight
- sonna
sonna
45,087 corpus weight
- sonnettes
sonnettes
45,086 corpus weight
- sortiraient
sortiraient
45,085 corpus weight
- soucieuses
soucieuses
45,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonnettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonnettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonnettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonnettes is uncommon French at frequency #54,915 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sonnette.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sonnettes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sonnettes, spelled S-O-N-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sonnette.
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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