Suède
\sɥɛd\
The verdict
“Suède” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,570 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #3,570
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays d’Europe du Nord situé dans l’Est de la Scandinavie, bordé à l’ouest par la Norvège, au nord-est par la Finlande, à l’est et au sud par la mer Baltique, et séparé du Danemark au sud-ouest par ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Suède |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɥɛd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Suède” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Suède is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥɛd\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,570 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Suède, with forms such as "ssuède", "sudèe", and "suede". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "suez", "suer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Suède, spelled S-U-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Europe du Nord situé dans l’Est de la Scandinavie, bordé à l’ouest par la Norvège, au nord-est par la Finlande, à l’est et au sud par la mer Baltique, et séparé du Danemark au sud-ouest par le Cattégat, et dont la capitale est Stockholm.
- 2Gouvernement de ce pays.
- 3Cuir avec une finition douce.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ssuède,sudèe,suede,suèdde,suèed,sèude,usède
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Suède - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Suède”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-È-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɥɛd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sure” - see the side-by-side comparison. Suède vs sure
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.