sulfures
\syl.fyʁ\
The verdict
“sulfures” is uncommon French (frequency #72,770 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,770
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sulfure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulfures · sulfures · French
sulfures · rank #72,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,770
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH successorale
Nearest frequency peer: successorale (-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 « sulfures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- structurante
structurante
27,235 corpus weight
- sturgeon
sturgeon
27,233 corpus weight
- successorale
successorale
27,232 corpus weight
- sulfures
sulfures
27,231 corpus weight
- sunnisme
sunnisme
27,230 corpus weight
- supplication
supplication
27,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sulfures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sulfures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.fyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sulfures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sulfures is uncommon French at frequency #72,770 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syl.fyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sulfure.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sulfures, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sulfures, spelled S-U-L-F-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sulfure.
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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