sucre

/\sykʁ\/ noun

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.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sucre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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

Synonyms

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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"

scure5ssucre6succre6sucrre6surce5uscre5
Misspelling Variants of "sucre"

Frequency rank: #2,742 in French

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?
"sucre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.