sus
[sœs]
The verdict
“sus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,757) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,757
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schwester
Corpus desk
Index DE-sus · sus · German
sus · rank #15,757 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,757
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH strenger
Nearest frequency peer: strenger (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sus“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- stammten
stammten
84,247 corpus weight
- streicheln
streicheln
84,246 corpus weight
- strenger
strenger
84,245 corpus weight
- sus
sus
84,244 corpus weight
- Tc
Tc
84,243 corpus weight
- them
them
84,242 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sus“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sœs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sus“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sus is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SZ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [sœs]. Frequency #15,757 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Schwester".
sus has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SZ", "SW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sus, spelled S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Schwester
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).