sulfuré
\syl.fy.ʁe\
The verdict
“sulfuré” is uncommon French (frequency #99,676 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,676
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est combiné avec le soufre, sans oxygène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulfure · sulfuré · French
sulfuré · rank #99,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,676
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sulfamides
Nearest frequency peer: sulfamides (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sulfuré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subdiviser
subdiviser
329 corpus weight
- subsistante
subsistante
328 corpus weight
- sulfamides
sulfamides
326 corpus weight
- sulfuré
sulfuré
325 corpus weight
- sumérienne
sumérienne
324 corpus weight
- supercalcul…
supercalculateurs
322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sulfuré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sulfuré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syl.fy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sulfuré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sulfuré is uncommon French at frequency #99,676 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syl.fy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est combiné avec le soufre, sans oxygène.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sulfuré, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sulfuré, spelled S-U-L-F-U-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est combiné avec le soufre, sans oxygène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sulfuré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hydrogène sulfuré.
Interpellé à ce sujet, le premier adjoint à la mairie de Paris Emmanuel Grégoire a expliqué qu’« aucun incendie ou incident industriel » n’avait été signalé et que « l’odeur sulfurée pourrait être liée aux fortes précipitations ».
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).