canal de Suez
\ka.nal də sɥɛz\
The verdict
“canal de Suez” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Canal qui relie la mer Méditerranée au golfe de Suez et indirectement à la mer Rouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal de Suez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal də sɥɛz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canal de Suez” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canal de Suez is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal də sɥɛz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Canal qui relie la mer Méditerranée au golfe de Suez et indirectement à la mer Rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canal de Suez in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is canal de Suez, spelled C-A-N-A-L- -D-E- -S-U-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Canal qui relie la mer Méditerranée au golfe de Suez et indirectement à la mer Rouge.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “canal de Suez”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-L- -D-E- -S-U-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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