sonora
\soˈno.ɾa\
The verdict
“sonora” is uncommon French (frequency #67,122 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,122
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de sonoro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sonora · sonora · French
sonora · rank #67,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,122
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommité
Nearest frequency peer: sommité (-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 « sonora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- somatiques
somatiques
32,882 corpus weight
- sommiers
sommiers
32,881 corpus weight
- sommité
sommité
32,880 corpus weight
- sonora
sonora
32,879 corpus weight
- soucié
soucié
32,877 corpus weight
- souf
souf
32,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sonora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \soˈno.ɾa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sonora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sonora is uncommon French at frequency #67,122 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \soˈno.ɾa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de sonoro.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sonora in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sonora, spelled S-O-N-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de sonoro.
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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