Susa
[zuːza]
The verdict
“Susa” is uncommon German (frequency #79,801 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,801
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die frühere Hauptstadt des altorientalischen Reiches Elam am Fluss Kercha, in der antiken Region Susiana
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Susa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [zuːza] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Susa” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Susa is uncommon German at frequency #79,801 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [zuːza]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die frühere Hauptstadt des altorientalischen Reiches Elam am Fluss Kercha, in der antiken Region Susiana".
Zero misspellings are on record for Susa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Susa, spelled S-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1die frühere Hauptstadt des altorientalischen Reiches Elam am Fluss Kercha, in der antiken Region Susiana
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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Using “Susa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-U-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.