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sud

/sʌd/noun

sud is spelled S-U-D: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sud means “A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sud is suds.

How many letters and syllables are in sud?

Letters3: S-U-D
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 37,459th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sud?

Sud appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th 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 sud?

  • /sʌd/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sud.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sud

  • suds plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sud mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalA bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).

noun

as SUD
  1. 1

    Acronym of subjective unit of disturbance.

  2. 2

    Acronym of substance use disorder.

  3. 3

    Acronym of sudden unexplained death.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does sud come from?

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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