sun
The verdict
“sun” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,897) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,897
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chanter
Corpus desk
Index FR-sun · sun · French
sun · rank #6,897 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,897
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH studios
Nearest frequency peer: studios (-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 « sun »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sphère
sphère
93,107 corpus weight
- spécialisés
spécialisés
93,106 corpus weight
- studios
studios
93,105 corpus weight
- sun
sun
93,104 corpus weight
- supposé
supposé
93,103 corpus weight
- syndrome
syndrome
93,102 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sun » 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 | sun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sun »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sun is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #6,897 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
sun has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 sun, spelled S-U-N.
Definition
- 1Chanter
- 2Pleurer
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
anʋnman nɩn lɛ sun.
adɔman nɩn lɛ sun.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sun", not the corpus desk frequency band.