sudo
\ˈsu.ðo\
The verdict
“sudo” is uncommon French (frequency #76,156 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,156
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sudar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sudo · sudo · French
sudo · rank #76,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,156
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subtilisé
Nearest frequency peer: subtilisé (-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 « sudo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subdivisent
subdivisent
23,848 corpus weight
- subséquemme…
subséquemment
23,847 corpus weight
- subtilisé
subtilisé
23,846 corpus weight
- sudo
sudo
23,845 corpus weight
- supersoniqu…
supersoniques
23,844 corpus weight
- symbiote
symbiote
23,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sudo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sudo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsu.ðo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sudo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sudo is uncommon French at frequency #76,156 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈsu.ðo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sudar.".
sudo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sudo, spelled S-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sudar.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).