suie

\sɥi\

/\sɥi\/ noun

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The verdict

“suie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,549) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#38,549
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière noire et épaisse que la fumée dépose sur la surface des corps avec lesquels elle entre en contact.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suie · suie · French

suie · rank #38,549 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,549
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sucrerie

Nearest frequency peer: sucrerie (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « suie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « suie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

suie vs sur
50% similar
suie vs sun
50% similar
suie vs sup
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for suie
PropertyValue
Headwordsuie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɥi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#38,549
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « suie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).suiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sucrerie » (#38,548), « sulfureuse » (#38,550), « succulent » (#38,547). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suie » est au #38,549. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for suie is neighbouring look-alikes ("sur", "sun", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɥi\. Frequency #38,549 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Matière noire et épaisse que la fumée dépose sur la surface des corps avec lesquels elle entre en contact.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for suie, with forms such as "siue", "ssuie", and "suei". 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", "sun", "sup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suie, spelled S-U-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Matière noire et épaisse que la fumée dépose sur la surface des corps avec lesquels elle entre en contact.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Noir comme de la suie.
  2. La cheminée est pleine de suie.

This word in other languages

soot(English)hollín(Español)Ruß(Deutsch)fuligem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • siue
  • ssuie
  • suei
  • usie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

siue2ssuie1suei2usie2
Edit distance from "suie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suie"?
"suie" is spelled S-U-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥi\.
What does "suie" mean?
As a noun, "suie" means: Matière noire et épaisse que la fumée dépose sur la surface des corps avec lesquels elle entre en contact.
What words are commonly confused with "suie"?
"suie" is commonly confused with "sur", "sun", "sup". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suie" is \sɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suie" come from?
"suie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

SSII#38,545saba#38,529rona#38,517reus#38,513

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list