sonneurs
\sɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“sonneurs” is uncommon French (frequency #76,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sonneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonneurs · sonneurs · French
sonneurs · rank #76,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sollicita
Nearest frequency peer: sollicita (-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 « sonneurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soe
soe
23,865 corpus weight
- sollicita
sollicita
23,863 corpus weight
- sonneurs
sonneurs
23,862 corpus weight
- soustrayant
soustrayant
23,861 corpus weight
- spear
spear
23,860 corpus weight
- spit
spit
23,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonneurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonneurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonneurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonneurs is uncommon French at frequency #76,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sonneur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sonneurs, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sonneurs, spelled S-O-N-N-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sonneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sonneurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeune musicien, mitraillé par les photographes, est à bonne école, son père étant l’un des sonneurs principaux du bagad Kevrenn Kastell.
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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