sul
\ˈsul\
The verdict
“sul” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,033) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sur le.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sul · sul · French
sul · rank #33,033 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,033
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suffise
Nearest frequency peer: suffise (-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 « sul »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- substantiel…
substantielles
66,971 corpus weight
- sucé
sucé
66,970 corpus weight
- suffise
suffise
66,969 corpus weight
- sul
sul
66,968 corpus weight
- surintendant
surintendant
66,967 corpus weight
- survive
survive
66,966 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sul » 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 | sul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \ˈsul\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sul »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sul is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \ˈsul\. Frequency #33,033 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Sur le.".
sul has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SV", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sul, spelled S-U-L.
Definition
- 1Sur le.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lancio sul mercato di un formaggino dietetico, particolarmente adatto per l’infanzia : Formaggino Dietetico Ipolipidico Plasmon.
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).