Sousse

name

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The verdict

“Sousse” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,902
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville portuaire de la Tunisie, située à 143 kilomètres au sud de Tunis.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sousse · Sousse · French

Sousse · rank #33,902 · 6 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,902
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soviets

Nearest frequency peer: soviets (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sousse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Sousse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Sousse vs soute
50% similar
Sousse vs Suisse
67% similar
Sousse vs Sussex
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Sousse
PropertyValue
HeadwordSousse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#33,902
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sousse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Soussese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soviets » (#33,903), « sociétaux » (#33,900), « stabilisée » (#33,904). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sousse » est au #33,902. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sousse, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,902 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville portuaire de la Tunisie, située à 143 kilomètres au sud de Tunis.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sousse, with forms such as "osusse", "sosuse", and "souse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "soute", "Suisse", "Sussex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sousse, spelled S-O-U-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville portuaire de la Tunisie, située à 143 kilomètres au sud de Tunis.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Sousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « À ce propos, ajouta l’Italien, avez-vous vu le portrait en mosaïque de Virgile que vos compatriotes viennent de découvrir à Sousse, en Algérie^([sic]) ? »

This word in other languages

Susa(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osusse
  • sosuse
  • souse
  • souses
  • ssousse
  • suosse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sousse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osusse2sosuse2souse1souses2ssousse1suosse2
Edit distance from "Sousse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sousse"?
"Sousse" is spelled S-O-U-S-S-E.
What does "Sousse" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sousse" means: Ville portuaire de la Tunisie, située à 143 kilomètres au sud de Tunis.
What words are commonly confused with "Sousse"?
"Sousse" is commonly confused with "soute", "Suisse", "Sussex". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Sousse" come from?
"Sousse" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sousse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tirade#33,916Sancho#33,885toubib#33,922trucks#33,926

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

œdipe6 variantsProst6 variantsplot6 variantsalive6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list