sucrer
\sy.kʁe\
The verdict
“sucrer” is uncommon French (frequency #56,951 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,951
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre du sucre dans quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sucrer · sucrer · French
sucrer · rank #56,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,951
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suceurs
Nearest frequency peer: suceurs (-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 « sucrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stéréotypée
stéréotypée
43,053 corpus weight
- subversifs
subversifs
43,052 corpus weight
- suceurs
suceurs
43,051 corpus weight
- sucrer
sucrer
43,050 corpus weight
- surplace
surplace
43,048 corpus weight
- surprendrait
surprendrait
43,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sucrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sucrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.kʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sucrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sucrer is uncommon French at frequency #56,951 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.kʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
sucrer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sucrer, spelled S-U-C-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre du sucre dans quelque chose.
- 2Donner un goût sucré.
- 3Adoucir, rendre faussement aimable.
- 4Subtiliser, voler, supprimer, retirer, censurer.
- 5Courtiser, faire la cour à quelqu’un.
- 6Mettre du sucre dans sa boisson, se servir en sucre.
- 7S’avantager, prendre une bonne part du bénéfice, en général au détriment d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sucrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sucrer du café, des fraises etc.
Ces confitures sont trop sucrées.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).