sudoku
\su.do.ku\
The verdict
“sudoku” is uncommon French (frequency #64,113 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,113
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “sudoku” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sudoku is uncommon French at frequency #64,113 among 394,209 “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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Using “sudoku”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-D-O-K-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \su.do.ku\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.