Which to use
“send” and “sonde” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,156
- “send” frequency rank
- #7,902
- “sonde” frequency rank
- 44058
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | send | sonde |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chose, objet. | Instrument qui sert à sonder. — Il se dit particulièrement d’un plomb attaché à une corde et dont on use pour connaître la profondeur de la mer, d’une rivière, la nature du fond, etc. |
Where the eye mixes send and sonde
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. send runs 4 letters (CVCC) against sonde's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses send with sonde
A purely visual mix-up. send (\ˈsend\) and sonde (\sɔ̃d\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
send is recorded at frequency rank #36,156, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈsend\. sonde is at rank #7,902, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ̃d\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 44058, this pair ranks #213,369 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of send vs sonde
Shared letters: dens. Private to "send": -. Private to "sonde": o.
"send" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "sonde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "send" for "sonde" ever safe?
Which is more common, "send" or "sonde"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "send" and "sonde" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "send" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sonde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #213,369 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "send" and "sonde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "send vs Sepp". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #213,369 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.