sucre

\sykʁ\

/\sykʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sucre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,742
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance alimentaire de saveur douce et agréable le plus souvent sous forme cristallisée, extraite notamment de la canne à sucre et de la betterave sucrière → voir saccharose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sucre · sucre · French

sucre · rank #2,742 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,742
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soucis

Nearest frequency peer: soucis (-2 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 « sucre »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sucre » 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).

sucre vs sur
60% similar
sucre vs sure
80% similar
sucre vs surf
60% similar

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

Key facts for sucre
PropertyValue
Headwordsucre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sykʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,742
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sucre »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sucrese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soucis » (#2,740), « seules » (#2,739), « secondaire » (#2,738). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sucre » est au #2,742. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around sucre (IPA \sykʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,742 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sucre, with forms such as "scure", "ssucre", and "succre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "sure", "surf", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sucre, spelled S-U-C-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Substance alimentaire de saveur douce et agréable le plus souvent sous forme cristallisée, extraite notamment de la canne à sucre et de la betterave sucrière → voir saccharose.
  2. 2
    Morceau de sucre, généralement de forme cubique ou parallélépipèdique.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des activités, des opérations qui concerne la production et la vente du sucre.
  4. 4
    Ose. Composé organique, plus particulièrement un glucide, caractérisée par la présence d’une fonction carbonyle (aldéhyde ou cétone) et de plusieurs fonctions alcools.
  5. 5
    Sucre électrique : Petite pièce en plastique et de la taille d’un morceau de sucre, permettant de joindre les fils conducteurs des câbles électriques, au moyen de vis.
  6. 6
    : (Période de la) récolte de la sève des érables → voir sucres

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Relativement à la composition du sucre de cannes auquel nous réservons le nom de sucre, l’auteur n’avait rien à ajouter à ce qui existe dans la science.
  2. Le sucre, qu’aux jours de Louis XVI on ne trouvait que chez les apothicaires, a donné naissance à diverses professions lucratives, telles que les pâtissiers du petit-four, les confiseurs, les liquoristes et autres marchands de friandises.

Synonyms

saccharosesusucresu-sucremorceauosesucre simple

This word in other languages

sugar(English)azúcar(Español)Zucker(Deutsch)açúcar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • scure
  • ssucre
  • succre
  • sucrre
  • surce
  • uscre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sucre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

scure2ssucre1succre1sucrre1surce2uscre2
Edit distance from "sucre"

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 "sucre"?
"sucre" is spelled S-U-C-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sykʁ\.
What does "sucre" mean?
As a noun, "sucre" means: Substance alimentaire de saveur douce et agréable le plus souvent sous forme cristallisée, extraite notamment de la canne à sucre et de la betterave sucrière → voir saccharose.
What words are commonly confused with "sucre"?
"sucre" is commonly confused with "sur", "sure", "surf". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sucre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sucre" is \sykʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sucre" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

remis#2,734quart#2,733angle#2,754pause#2,730

Similar misspelling depth

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

auras6 variantsjack6 variantsRock6 variantspousse6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list