sonneur
\sɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“sonneur” is uncommon French (frequency #65,527 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui sonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonneur · sonneur · French
sonneur · rank #65,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,527
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH songerait
Nearest frequency peer: songerait (-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 « sonneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sombrent
sombrent
34,476 corpus weight
- songerait
songerait
34,475 corpus weight
- sonneur
sonneur
34,474 corpus weight
- sophistes
sophistes
34,473 corpus weight
- soudains
soudains
34,472 corpus weight
- soufflera
soufflera
34,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonneur is uncommon French at frequency #65,527 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sonneur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sonneur, spelled S-O-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui sonne.
- 2Musicien qui joue de la bombarde, de la cornemuse ou du biniou.
- 3Personne qui sonne les cloches.
- 4Nom donné à certains crapauds.
- 5Ouvrier qui au moyen d’appareils de sonnerie transmet des signaux, d'un accrochage au machiniste d'extraction, pour l’avertir des manœuvres à faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sonneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Picprune : Toujours ce sonneur de trompette ! .. Il n'y a plus moyen de dormir tranquille ... Je me plaindrai au commissaire !
Quant aux autres membres du sacré collège Tonto, Lanfranco , Philonardo et quelques-uns de leurs collègues, ce serait pis encore si on leur demandait quelle profession ils exerçaient avant de passer cardinaux , l'un était sonneur d'orgues à l'Oratoire, et recevait quinze jules de traitement par mois; […].
This word in other languages
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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