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sux

noun, verb

sux is spelled S-U-X: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sux means “Suxamethonium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sux?

Letters3: S-U-X
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th 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 sux?

Sux appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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 sux?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sux.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does sux mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalSuxamethonium.

verb

  1. 1

    nonstandardslangSucks (in the sense of being inferior or objectionable).

    You can post updates about your life and your new friends will reply: "OMG that sux", "LOL you are teh funnay!"...

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

Where does sux come from?

Shortening.

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

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