sonore
French, noun/sɔ.nɔʁ/
sonore is spelled S-O-N-O-R-E (6 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonore is a French masculine noun meaning “soundbite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sonore mean in English?
adjective
- 1
resonant, echoing
- 2
resounding (slap, kiss etc.)
- 3
sound(-)
- 4
voiced
noun
- 1
masculinesoundbite
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui rend un son. 2. Qui donne beaucoup de son, qui a un beau son. 3. Qui renvoie bien le son, où le son résonne bien. 4. Qui est mal isolé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sonore
- sonores plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sonore?
- /sɔ.nɔʁ/
- \sɔ.nɔʁ\
- [sɔ.nɔʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sonore
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonore in French?
sonore appears 9.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).