suss
/sʌs/
"suss" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suss” is uncommon English (frequency #59,060 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,060
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-suss · suss · English
suss · rank #59,060 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,060
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Suraj
Nearest frequency peer: Suraj (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “suss”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sufism
Sufism
40,945 corpus weight
- sultana
sultana
40,944 corpus weight
- Suraj
Suraj
40,942 corpus weight
- suss
suss
40,941 corpus weight
- SVR
SVR
40,939 corpus weight
- switchblade
switchblade
40,938 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “suss” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suss |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sʌs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suss” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suss is uncommon English at frequency #59,060 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sʌs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).".
Zero misspellings are on record for suss in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is suss, spelled S-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).
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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