sud
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,016
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sud is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced [ˈsuð̞]. Often confused with sy and sus.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sud is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsuð̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,016 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sud in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "sus", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sud, spelled S-U-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #14,016 in Spanish
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