Sundgau
\sun.dɡo\
The verdict
“Sundgau” is uncommon French (frequency #88,129 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,129
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région du sud de l'Alsace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sundgau · Sundgau · French
Sundgau · rank #88,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,129
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sues
Nearest frequency peer: sues (-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 « Sundgau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subdivisés
subdivisés
11,874 corpus weight
- sues
sues
11,873 corpus weight
- Sundgau
Sundgau
11,872 corpus weight
- superintend…
superintendant
11,871 corpus weight
- supériorités
supériorités
11,870 corpus weight
- surat
surat
11,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sundgau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sundgau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sun.dɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sundgau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sundgau is uncommon French at frequency #88,129 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sun.dɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région du sud de l'Alsace.".
Sundgau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sundgau, spelled S-U-N-D-G-A-U.
Definition
- 1Région du sud de l'Alsace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sundgau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; ce complexe, qui trouve son optimum écologique sur sols argileux, est caractérisé comme dans la plaine alsacienne et le Sundgau par la fréquence de Carex brizoides.
On parlait de la libération de Strasbourg et de la Première Armée Française engagée dans le Sundgau. Ce nom revint à plusieurs reprises, mais le père ne le connaissait pas.
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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