FSU
The verdict
“FSU” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,171) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,171
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération française de syndicats de l’enseignement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fsu · FSU · French
FSU · rank #30,171 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,171
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fréquentées
Nearest frequency peer: fréquentées (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « FSU »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- frit
frit
69,833 corpus weight
- fry
fry
69,832 corpus weight
- fréquentées
fréquentées
69,831 corpus weight
- FSU
FSU
69,830 corpus weight
- furieusement
furieusement
69,829 corpus weight
- furious
furious
69,828 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FSU » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | FSU |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FSU »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FSU is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "fun", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #30,171 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fédération française de syndicats de l’enseignement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for FSU, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "fun", "fût", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is FSU, spelled F-S-U.
Definition
- 1Fédération française de syndicats de l’enseignement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FSU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La FSU rassemble des syndicats de la Fonction Publique d'Etat et de la Fonction Publique Territoriale.
Le FSU-SNUipp, principal syndicat du primaire, a de nouveau dénoncé cette réalité jeudi après avoir lancé sur les réseaux sociaux, fin août, une campagne d’alerte intitulée « L’école en sous-France ».
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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