sum
\sum\
The verdict
“sum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,825) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,825
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan
Corpus desk
Index FR-sum · sum · French
sum · rank #30,825 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,825
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH such
Nearest frequency peer: such (-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 « sum »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- stupéfait
stupéfait
69,180 corpus weight
- stéroïdes
stéroïdes
69,179 corpus weight
- such
such
69,177 corpus weight
- sum
sum
69,176 corpus weight
- surprenants
surprenants
69,173 corpus weight
- suscitant
suscitant
69,172 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sum » 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 | sum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sum\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sum »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sum is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sum\. Frequency #30,825 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan".
Zero misspellings are on record for sum in our index, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sum, spelled S-U-M.
Definition
- 1Unité monétaire utilisée en Ouzbékistan
This word in other languages
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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