sud
[ˈsuð̞]
The verdict
“sud” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,016) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,016
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uno de los cuatro puntos cardinales, el especificado por los 180°, dirigido hacia el polo sur, por convención la dirección hacia abajo en un mapa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sud · sud · Spanish
sud · rank #14,016 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,016
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sta
Nearest frequency peer: sta (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “sud”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sostenibili…
sostenibilidad
85,988 corpus weight
- sta
sta
85,986 corpus weight
- sud
sud
85,985 corpus weight
- Sudán
Sudán
85,984 corpus weight
- sugerido
sugerido
85,983 corpus weight
- sushi
sushi
85,982 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sud” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | sud |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsuð̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sud”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sud is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "sus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsuð̞]. Frequency #14,016 among 4,169 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for sud in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "sus", "sur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sud, spelled S-U-D.
Definition
- 1Uno de los cuatro puntos cardinales, el especificado por los 180°, dirigido hacia el polo sur, por convención la dirección hacia abajo en un mapa.
- 2El polo negativo de un imán
This word in other languages
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).