su
\sy\
The verdict
“su” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,609) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,609
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-su · su · French
su · rank #1,609 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,609
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silence
Nearest frequency peer: silence (-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 « su »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rose
rose
98,396 corpus weight
- salon
salon
98,394 corpus weight
- silence
silence
98,393 corpus weight
- su
su
98,392 corpus weight
- sympa
sympa
98,391 corpus weight
- univers
univers
98,389 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « su » 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 | su |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « su »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for su is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \sy\. Frequency #1,609 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe savoir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for su, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SV", "sur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is su, spelled S-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe savoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how su appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Elle n’eût pas comme toi su qu’on devait écrire un couvre-pied, des couvre-pieds, un serre-tête, des serre-tête.
— On ne sait jamais. — C’est tout su, dit Maillat.
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.