sudation

\sy.da.sjɔ̃\

/\sy.da.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“sudation” is uncommon French (frequency #61,919 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,919
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de provoquer la sueur ; fait de suer naturellement ou par l’effet d’un médicament approprié.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sudation · sudation · French

sudation · rank #61,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,919
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH succombent

Nearest frequency peer: succombent (-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 « sudation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sudation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sudation
PropertyValue
Headwordsudation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.da.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,919
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sudation » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sudationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « succombent » (#61,918), « suffocation » (#61,920), « substituée » (#61,917). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sudation » est au #61,919. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sudation is uncommon French at frequency #61,919 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.da.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de provoquer la sueur ; fait de suer naturellement ou par l’effet d’un médicament approprié.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sudation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 sudation, spelled S-U-D-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de provoquer la sueur ; fait de suer naturellement ou par l’effet d’un médicament approprié.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sudation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vers onze heures, le malade fait 39 degrés avec violent frisson durant vingt minutes environ, avec céphalée violente et sudation abondante.
  2. Ma pensée échappait à cette sudation en vase clos à quoi la pratique de la réflexion philosophique la réduisait.

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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sudation"?
"sudation" is spelled S-U-D-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.da.sjɔ̃\.
What does "sudation" mean?
As a noun, "sudation" means: Action de provoquer la sueur ; fait de suer naturellement ou par l’effet d’un médicament approprié.
How do you pronounce "sudation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sudation" is \sy.da.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sudation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list