sud
\syd\
The verdict
“sud” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #439) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point cardinal opposé au nord ; direction du pôle de l’hémisphère austral et correspondant à l’azimut 180°.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sud · sud · French
sud · rank #439 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #439
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rue
Nearest frequency peer: rue (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sud »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- parfois
parfois
99,565 corpus weight
- quelle
quelle
99,564 corpus weight
- rue
rue
99,563 corpus weight
- sud
sud
99,562 corpus weight
- super
super
99,561 corpus weight
- unis
unis
99,559 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sud » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sud »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sud is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \syd\. Frequency #439 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sud, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SV", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sud, spelled S-U-D.
Definition
- 1Point cardinal opposé au nord ; direction du pôle de l’hémisphère austral et correspondant à l’azimut 180°.
- 2Partie de la terre qui est opposée au Nord.
- 3Région d’un pays la plus rapprochée du Sud.
- 4Région de la Terre située au midi.
- 5Pays du Sud. Pays sous-développé.
- 6Vent soufflant depuis le midi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bourges est situé au sud de Paris.
Le terrain ardoisier montre une succession de schistes et de quartzites des nuances les plus diverses, dont l’inclinaison générale est vers le sud de la boussole.
Antonyms
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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