sourdine
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,024
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
sourdine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Commande d’un appareil audiovisuel qui permet de réduire ou supprimer le signal sonore, puis de le rétablir. Pronounced \suʁ.din\. Often confused with sourire and surdité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sourdine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \suʁ.din\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sourdine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \suʁ.din\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,024 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for sourdine, with forms such as "osurdine", "sorudine", and "soudrine". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sourire", "surdité", "sourde", 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 sourdine, spelled S-O-U-R-D-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commande d’un appareil audiovisuel qui permet de réduire ou supprimer le signal sonore, puis de le rétablir.
- 2Appareil qui est fixé ou qu’on adapte à certains instruments de musique, pour en affaiblir le son.
- 3Frein, atténuation.
- 4Ne plus parler de quelque chose, le mettre au second plan.
- 5Sourdière.
- 6Dans les montres mécaniques à répétition de sonnerie, ensemble mécanique composé d'un support, d'un bras, d'un bouton et d'un petit ressort, qui une fois enclenché empêche le marteau de frapper sur le timbre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osurdine,sorudine,soudrine,sourddine,sourdien,sourdinne,sourdnie,souridne,sourrdine,ssourdine,suordine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sourdine
Misspelling Variants of "sourdine"
Frequency rank: #40,024 in French
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