sucette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,826
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
sucette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bonbon en sucre cuit aromatisé que l’on tient à la main et consomme en le suçant ou en le léchant, accessoirement fixé à l’extrémité d’un bâtonnet. Pronounced \sy.sɛt\. Often confused with sûreté and sujette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sucette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sucette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.sɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,826 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sucette, with forms such as "scuette", "ssucette", and "succette". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sûreté", "sujette", "suceuse", 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 sucette, spelled S-U-C-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bonbon en sucre cuit aromatisé que l’on tient à la main et consomme en le suçant ou en le léchant, accessoirement fixé à l’extrémité d’un bâtonnet.
- 2Petit objet doté d’une pièce en caoutchouc et servant de succédané de biberon afin d’occuper un petit enfant ; tétine.
- 3Microphone à main, dont la forme générale et le port près de la bouche peuvent faire penser à une sucette.
- 4Récompense dérisoire.
- 5Suçon ; marque ou ecchymose faite sur la peau par une succion forte.
- 6Appareil destiné à égoutter les pains de sucre par un système d'aspiration.
- 7Surnom donné aux panneaux publicitaires posée sur un pied, dont la forme fait penser à une sucette (confiserie).
- 8Fellation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: scuette,ssucette,succette,sucete,sucetet,suctete,suectte,uscette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "sucette"
Frequency rank: #25,826 in French
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