sonnez
\sɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“sonnez” is uncommon French (frequency #73,564 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,564
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au trictrac, double six.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonnez · sonnez · French
sonnez · rank #73,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,564
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonnaient
Nearest frequency peer: sonnaient (-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 « sonnez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- slug
slug
26,440 corpus weight
- somptuaires
somptuaires
26,439 corpus weight
- sonnaient
sonnaient
26,438 corpus weight
- sonnez
sonnez
26,437 corpus weight
- soulèvera
soulèvera
26,436 corpus weight
- soumissionn…
soumissionner
26,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonnez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonnez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonnez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonnez is uncommon French at frequency #73,564 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au trictrac, double six.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sonnez in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sonnez, spelled S-O-N-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Au trictrac, double six.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sonnez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire sonnez.
Amener un sonnez.
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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