sons

/\sɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,287

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sons is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de son. Pronounced \sɔ̃\. It ranks #4,287 in French word frequency. Often confused with ss and sun.

Key facts for sons
PropertyValue
Headwordsons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ̃\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,287
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sons in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sons is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,287 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de son.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sons, with forms such as "osns", "snos", and "sonns". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ss", "sun", "sou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sons, spelled S-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de son.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osns,snos,sonns,sonss,sosn,ssons

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sons

Misspelling Variants of "sons"

osns4snos4sonns5sonss5sosn4ssons5
Misspelling Variants of "sons"

Frequency rank: #4,287 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sons"?
"sons" is spelled S-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ̃\.
What does "sons" mean?
As a noun, "sons" means: Pluriel de son.
What words are commonly confused with "sons"?
"sons" is commonly confused with "ss", "sun", "sou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sons" is \sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sons" come from?
"sons" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.