sueur
\sɥœʁ\
The verdict
“sueur” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,746
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide aqueux qui sort par les pores de la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sueur · sueur · French
sueur · rank #9,746 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,746
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH successifs
Nearest frequency peer: successifs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sueur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- signatures
signatures
90,259 corpus weight
- spatial
spatial
90,257 corpus weight
- successifs
successifs
90,256 corpus weight
- sueur
sueur
90,255 corpus weight
- suggéré
suggéré
90,254 corpus weight
- syndicale
syndicale
90,252 corpus weight
What this shows « sueur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɥœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sueur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sueur (IPA \sɥœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,746 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sueur, with forms such as "seuur", "ssueur", and "sueru". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "suu", "suez", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sueur, spelled S-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Liquide aqueux qui sort par les pores de la peau.
- 2Action de suer.
- 3Les peines qu’on s’est données pour réussir à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une sueur légère, mais que chacun vit et supposa froide, rendit son front humide.
Philippe, en se baissant pour mieux voir, aperçut le mouchoir encore humide de la sueur froide qui avait ruisselé du front de Louis XIV. Cette sueur épouvanta Philippe comme le sang d’Abel épouvanta Caïn.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- seuur
- ssueur
- sueru
- sueurr
- suuer
- useur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sueur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sueur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).