SuffvssungWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Suff is a noun, sung is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Suff” is a noun and “sung” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,164
“Suff” frequency rank
#27,077
“sung” frequency rank
69241
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Suff sung
Definition Trunk- oder Alkoholsucht Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs sing

Letter map: Suff vs sung

Shared letters muted; letters that set Suff and sung apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Suff
4 ch
sung

Role in the sentence - Suff and sung

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Suff is anoun and sungaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69241, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Suff is recorded at frequency rank #42,164, classified as anoun, pronounced [zʊf]. sung is at rank #27,077, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

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 69241, this pair ranks #482,628 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Suff vs sung

Shared letters: su. Private to "Suff": f. Private to "sung": gn.

"Suff" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "sung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Suffsfuf · ssuff · suf · usff
  • sungsnug · ssung · sugn · sungg · sunng · usng

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Suff" and "sung" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Suff" is a noun and "sung" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Suff" or "sung" show up more?
"sung" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,077 in our German list, against #42,164 for "Suff". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Suff" and "sung".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Suff" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sung" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #482,628 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Suff" and "sung" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Suff vs surft". 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 #482,628 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list