Suède

/\sɥɛd\/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,570

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Suède is aFrenchname. It means: 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 ... Pronounced \sɥɛd\. It ranks #3,570 in French word frequency. Often confused with sure and suez.

Key facts for Suède
PropertyValue
HeadwordSuède
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\sɥɛd\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,570
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Suède in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Suède is 5 letters long, classified as aname, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Suède, with forms such as "ssuède", "sudèe", and "suede". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Suède, spelled S-U-È-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 le Cattégat, et dont la capitale est Stockholm.
  2. 2
    Gouvernement de ce pays.
  3. 3
    Cuir 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Suède

Misspelling Variants of "Suède"

ssuède6sudèe5suede5suèdde6suèed5sèude5usède5
Misspelling Variants of "Suède"

Frequency rank: #3,570 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Suède"?
"Suède" is spelled S-U-È-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥɛd\.
What does "Suède" mean?
As a name, "Suède" means: 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "Suède"?
"Suède" is commonly confused with "sure", "suez", "suer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Suède"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Suède" is \sɥɛd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Suède" come from?
"Suède" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.