sudd
noun
sudd is a noun meaning “A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-D-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sudd is sudds.
What does sudd mean?
noun
- 1
A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sudd?
Sudd 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).
Forms of sudd
- sudds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sudd?
Sudd appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).
Where does sudd come from?
Borrowed from Arabic سُدّ (sudd, “dam, barrier”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).