sornettes
\sɔʁ.nɛt\
The verdict
“sornettes” is uncommon French (frequency #58,275 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,275
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sornette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sornettes · sornettes · French
sornettes · rank #58,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,275
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soumissionnai…
Nearest frequency peer: soumissionnaire (+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 « sornettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- siren
siren
41,732 corpus weight
- siro
siro
41,731 corpus weight
- sleepy
sleepy
41,730 corpus weight
- sornettes
sornettes
41,726 corpus weight
- soumissionn…
soumissionnaire
41,725 corpus weight
- statement
statement
41,723 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sornettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sornettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sornettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sornettes is uncommon French at frequency #58,275 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔʁ.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sornette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sornettes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 sornettes, spelled S-O-R-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sornette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sornettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encore les sornettes de Van Gulik, n’a-t-il pas bientôt fini d’enchinoiser tout le monde ?
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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