sourd
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,411
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sourd is anFrenchadj. It means: Dont l’acuité auditive est diminuée de façon importante ou totale, en parlant d’une personne ou d'un animal. Pronounced \suʁ\. Often confused with sur and sud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sourd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \suʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sourd is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \suʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,411 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sourd, with forms such as "osurd", "sorud", and "soudr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "sud", "sous", 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 French form is sourd, spelled S-O-U-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dont l’acuité auditive est diminuée de façon importante ou totale, en parlant d’une personne ou d'un animal.
- 2Qui ne tient pas compte de ce qu'on lui dit, qui refuse de comprendre.
- 3Qui est peu sonore, qui rend un son étouffé.
- 4Se dit d’un son du langage qui ne fait pas vibrer les cordes vocales.
- 5Qui est peu sensible, qui se perçoit peu.
- 6Qualifie les tons qui manquent d’éclat.
- 7Se dit de certaines choses qui se font secrètement, sans bruit, sans éclat.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osurd,sorud,soudr,sourdd,sourrd,ssourd,suord
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sourd
Misspelling Variants of "sourd"
Frequency rank: #10,411 in French
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