sud-ouest
\sy.d‿wɛst\
The verdict
“sud-ouest” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point de l’horizon qui est entre le sud et l’ouest. Il correspond à l'azimut 225°.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sud-ouest · sud-ouest · French
sud-ouest · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-ouest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.d‿wɛst\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sud-ouest is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.d‿wɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sud-ouest, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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-ouest, spelled S-U-D---O-U-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Point de l’horizon qui est entre le sud et l’ouest. Il correspond à l'azimut 225°.
- 2Vent qui souffle d’entre le sud et l’ouest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sud-ouest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ville de Saumur se trouve au sud-ouest de Paris.
Des averses, voire des orages, se produisent du sud-ouest au centre-est, ainsi que le long des Ardennes.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.