sucre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,742
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sucre is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \sykʁ\. It ranks #2,742 in French word frequency. Often confused with sur and sure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sucre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sykʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sucre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sykʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,742 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sucre, with forms such as "scure", "ssucre", and "succre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "sure", "surf", 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 sucre, spelled S-U-C-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance 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.
- 2Morceau de sucre, généralement de forme cubique ou parallélépipèdique.
- 3Ensemble des activités, des opérations qui concerne la production et la vente du sucre.
- 4Ose. Composé organique, plus particulièrement un glucide, caractérisée par la présence d’une fonction carbonyle (aldéhyde ou cétone) et de plusieurs fonctions alcools.
- 5Sucre 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: (Période de la) récolte de la sève des érables → voir sucres
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: scure,ssucre,succre,sucrre,surce,uscre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sucre
Misspelling Variants of "sucre"
Frequency rank: #2,742 in French
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