suk
\sʊk\
The verdict
“suk” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,626) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,626
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nœud dans le bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suk · suk · French
suk · rank #47,626 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,626
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suceuse
Nearest frequency peer: suceuse (-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 « suk »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- subissons
subissons
52,378 corpus weight
- subversive
subversive
52,377 corpus weight
- suceuse
suceuse
52,376 corpus weight
- suk
suk
52,375 corpus weight
- sunna
sunna
52,374 corpus weight
- Supernova
Supernova
52,373 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « suk » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | suk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sʊk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « suk »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for suk is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sʊk\. Frequency #47,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Nœud dans le bois.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for suk, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SV", "sur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is suk, spelled S-U-K.
Definition
- 1Nœud dans le bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
z podlahy vystupovaly suky.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).