# such

> English word · Determiner · IPA /sʌt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #146

## Definitions
1. Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
2. Any.
3. Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
4. Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
5. A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

## Etymology
From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

## Easily confused with
- **sun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sun)
- **sum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sum)
- **sue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sue)
- **SUV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suv)
- **sup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sup)
- **Sus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sus)
- **Sui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sui)
- **suh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suh)
- **Sul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sul)
- **sud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sud)
- **sure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sure)
- **suit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suit)
- **suck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suck)
- **sung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sung)
- **sued** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sued)
- **sums** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sums)
- **surf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-surf)
- **sunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-sunk)
- **suns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suns)
- **Suez** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/such-vs-suez)

## Common misspellings (6)
`scuh`, `ssuch`, `succh`, `suchh`, `suhc`, `usch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/such