Sulla
The verdict
“Sulla” is uncommon French (frequency #54,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sylla, homme d'État romain, vainqueur de Mithridate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulla · Sulla · French
Sulla · rank #54,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,931
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suggérés
Nearest frequency peer: suggérés (-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 « Sulla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stratosphère
stratosphère
45,074 corpus weight
- stérilisé
stérilisé
45,072 corpus weight
- suggérés
suggérés
45,071 corpus weight
- Sulla
Sulla
45,070 corpus weight
- supprimons
supprimons
45,068 corpus weight
- surchargées
surchargées
45,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sulla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sulla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sulla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sulla is uncommon French at frequency #54,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sylla, homme d'État romain, vainqueur de Mithridate.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sulla, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Sulla, spelled S-U-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Sylla, homme d'État romain, vainqueur de Mithridate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sulla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix.
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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