suc

\syk\

/\syk\/ noun

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The verdict

“suc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,755) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#44,755
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide organique animal.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suc · suc · French

suc · rank #44,755 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,755
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH subterfuge

Nearest frequency peer: subterfuge (-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 « suc »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « suc » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

suc vs sy
33% similar
suc vs SV
0% similar
suc vs sur
67% similar

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

Key facts for suc
PropertyValue
Headwordsuc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syk\
Letters3
Frequency rank#44,755
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « suc »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sucse 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 « subterfuge » (#44,754), « suffisaient » (#44,756), « strings » (#44,753). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suc » est au #44,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for suc is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \syk\. Frequency #44,755 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No generated misspelling entries exist for suc in our index, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is suc, spelled S-U-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liquide organique animal.
  2. 2
    Liquide organique animal.
  3. 3
    Liquide organique végétal.
  4. 4
    Liquide organique végétal.
  5. 5
    Liquide nourricier qui se trouve dans la terre.
  6. 6
    Quintessence, ce qu’il y a de substantiel dans une chose.
  7. 7
    Ancien volcan dont il ne reste que le dôme de lave ou un piton relativement isolé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L'extrait stomacal est capable d'hydrolyser la lactoglobuline dénaturée, mais non la forme native. La pepstatin-A, inhibiteur spécifique de la pepsine, inhibe, complètement, les effets du suc gastrique, […].
  2. Il alla engloutir son visage entre ses seins brûlants, puis il remonta vers ses aisselles qu’il inspira fiévreusement. Il plongea ensuite entre ses cuisses, là où la matrice avait le goût salé des embruns marins. Il but ses sucs à pleines gorgées.

This word in other languages

juice(English)Saft(Deutsch)

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 "suc"?
"suc" is spelled S-U-C. The IPA pronunciation is \syk\.
What does "suc" mean?
As a noun, "suc" means: Liquide organique animal.
What words are commonly confused with "suc"?
"suc" is commonly confused with "sy", "SV", "sur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suc" is \syk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suc" come from?
"suc" 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 "suc", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

uit#44,796RSF#44,703Wim#44,812Zhu#44,818

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list