sous
/suːz/noun
sous is spelled S-O-U-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sous means “plural of sou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sous?
| Letters | 4: S-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,070th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is sous?
Sous appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sous?
- /suːz/
As a noun (“Clipping of sous-chef”): /suː/.
Sous has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-sous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does sous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of sou
- 2
obsoleteObsolete form of sou (“French coin”).
- 3
plural of sous
- 4
Clipping of sous-chef.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).