sureau
\sy.ʁo\
The verdict
“sureau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,563
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbuste ou herbacée de la famille des chèvrefeuilles, dont les branches sont remplies d’une moelle tendre et abondante et qui produit des fleurs blanches d’une odeur particulière et forte, auxquell...
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Index FR-sureau · sureau · French
sureau · rank #39,563 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,563
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surchargés
Nearest frequency peer: surchargés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sureau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- summit
summit
60,441 corpus weight
- superficiels
superficiels
60,440 corpus weight
- surchargés
surchargés
60,439 corpus weight
- sureau
sureau
60,438 corpus weight
- surmontés
surmontés
60,437 corpus weight
- surtaxe
surtaxe
60,436 corpus weight
What this shows « sureau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sureau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sureau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sureau (IPA \sy.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,563 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arbuste ou herbacée de la famille des chèvrefeuilles, dont les branches sont remplies d’une moelle tendre et abondante et qui produit des fleurs blanches d’une odeur particulière et forte, auxquell...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sureau, with forms such as "srueau", "ssureau", and "suerau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sûreté", "survécu", "survenu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sureau, spelled S-U-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Arbuste ou herbacée de la famille des chèvrefeuilles, dont les branches sont remplies d’une moelle tendre et abondante et qui produit des fleurs blanches d’une odeur particulière et forte, auxquelles succèdent des fruits (baies) noirâtres, bleus ou rouges selon les espèces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sureau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] je me retirai doucement, et j’allai me réfugier derrière une haie de sureau dont le feuillage me déroba complètement à tous les regards.
Ainsi, parmi les plantes ligneuses, le sureau et la plupart des chèvres-feuilles sont toujours les premières qui feuillent ; parmi les plantes vivaces, le safran et la tulipe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srueau
- ssureau
- suerau
- suraeu
- sureua
- surreau
- usreau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sureau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).