sud-américain
\sy.da.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“sud-américain” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sud-americain · sud-américain · French
sud-américain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sud-américain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.da.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sud-américain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.da.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à l’Amérique du Sud.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sud-américain, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 sud-américain, spelled S-U-D---A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Amérique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sud-américain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Guyane française fait certes partie intégrante de la France et de l’Europe, mais, sur le plan religieux, les Guyanais rejoignent la manière de croire des peuples caribéens et sud-américains.
Comme si l’agriculture n'était plus que l’œuvre de l’industrie chimique, appliquée par des technoserfs et complémentée au soja transgénique sud-américain, dont nous sommes les plus gros importateurs.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.