sucks
/sʌks/
"sucks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sucks” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,789
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of suck
Corpus desk
Index EN-sucks · sucks · English
sucks · rank #3,789 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,789
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subjects
Nearest frequency peer: subjects (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sucks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- spin
spin
96,215 corpus weight
- subjects
subjects
96,213 corpus weight
- sucks
sucks
96,212 corpus weight
- suitable
suitable
96,211 corpus weight
- thirty
thirty
96,210 corpus weight
- valid
valid
96,209 corpus weight
What this shows “sucks” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | sucks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sʌks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sucks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sucks (IPA /sʌks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,789 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of suck".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sucks, with forms such as "scuks", "ssucks", and "succks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sus", "sums", "sunk", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sucks, spelled S-U-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of suck
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scuks
- ssucks
- succks
- suckks
- suckss
- sucsk
- sukcs
- uscks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sucks - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sucks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).