succion
\syk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“succion” is uncommon French (frequency #52,372 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,372
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de sucer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-succion · succion · French
succion · rank #52,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH succinct
Nearest frequency peer: succinct (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « succion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stupidement
stupidement
47,632 corpus weight
- successive
successive
47,631 corpus weight
- succinct
succinct
47,630 corpus weight
- succion
succion
47,629 corpus weight
- sultanat
sultanat
47,628 corpus weight
- sultans
sultans
47,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « succion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | succion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « succion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
succion is uncommon French at frequency #52,372 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syk.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for succion in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is succion, spelled S-U-C-C-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de sucer.
- 2Ancien nom donné à la force exercée par la pression osmotique, à l’intérieur des végétaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how succion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quatre succions sonores de la mère, deux sur chaque joue, en parfait synchronisme avec les baisers du fils, à peine perceptibles.
Cette fois le président mangea de meilleur appétit et accepta même un cigare Cohiba dont on m’avait offert, il y a quelque temps, une boîte. Je déteste l’odeur des cigares et le style de la plupart des gens qui les fument. Mais, ce soir-là, le président s’enfouit avec un tel bonheur dans ce gros module, le tétant jusqu’à la garde, que j’endurais avec séré…
This word in other languages
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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