sudoku
\su.do.ku\
The verdict
“sudoku” is uncommon French (frequency #64,113 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,113
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu en forme de grille dont on doit remplir les cases avec des chiffres, de façon à ce que chaque ligne, colonne et région (chacun des 9 carrés de 9 cases) ne contienne qu’une seule fois tous les c...
Corpus desk
Index FR-sudoku · sudoku · French
sudoku · rank #64,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,113
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sucs
Nearest frequency peer: sucs (-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 « sudoku »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- strap
strap
35,891 corpus weight
- stratigraph…
stratigraphique
35,890 corpus weight
- sucs
sucs
35,889 corpus weight
- sudoku
sudoku
35,888 corpus weight
- suger
suger
35,886 corpus weight
- surhumains
surhumains
35,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sudoku » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sudoku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.do.ku\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sudoku » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sudoku is uncommon French at frequency #64,113 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.do.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu en forme de grille dont on doit remplir les cases avec des chiffres, de façon à ce que chaque ligne, colonne et région (chacun des 9 carrés de 9 cases) ne contienne qu’une seule fois tous les c...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sudoku, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sudoku, spelled S-U-D-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1Jeu en forme de grille dont on doit remplir les cases avec des chiffres, de façon à ce que chaque ligne, colonne et région (chacun des 9 carrés de 9 cases) ne contienne qu’une seule fois tous les chiffres de 1 à 9.
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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