sud
[ˈsuð̞]
The verdict
“sud” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #14,016 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #14,016
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
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) |
Where “sud” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sud is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
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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Using “sud”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsuð̞] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sy” - see the side-by-side comparison. sud vs sy
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.