sucrose
/ˈsukɹoʊs/
"sucrose" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sucrose” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,120
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sucrose · sucrose · English
sucrose · rank #39,120 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH suckling
Nearest frequency peer: suckling (-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 “sucrose”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stretchy
stretchy
60,884 corpus weight
- suckling
suckling
60,882 corpus weight
- sucrose
sucrose
60,881 corpus weight
- Suleiman
Suleiman
60,880 corpus weight
- sundae
sundae
60,879 corpus weight
- sundry
sundry
60,878 corpus weight
What this shows “sucrose” 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 | sucrose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsukɹoʊs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sucrose”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sucrose (IPA /ˈsukɹoʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,120 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sucrose, with forms such as "scurose", "ssucrose", and "succrose". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "suppose", "sunrise", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucr… The correct English form is sucrose, spelled S-U-C-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sucrose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There were four forms of sugar interesting to the physiologist---cane sugar, grape sugar, milk sugar, and liver sugar. They might be called, for the sake of distinction, sucrose, glucose, lactose, and hepatose. The first two were vegetable, the last two, animal products.
Dextran is an indicator of cane deterioration and sucrose loss after harvesting of the cane.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle French sucre French sucre English -ose English sucrose From French sucre + English -ose.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scurose
- ssucrose
- succrose
- sucorse
- sucroes
- sucrosse
- sucrrose
- sucrsoe
- surcose
- uscrose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sucrose - 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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Same letter count
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