sus
\sys\
The verdict
“sus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,488) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,488
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sus · sus · French
sus · rank #12,488 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,488
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH survivant
Nearest frequency peer: survivant (-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 « sus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Stuart
Stuart
87,516 corpus weight
- superman
superman
87,515 corpus weight
- survivant
survivant
87,514 corpus weight
- sus
sus
87,513 corpus weight
- séjours
séjours
87,512 corpus weight
- talk
talk
87,511 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sus » 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 | sus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sys\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sus is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \sys\. Frequency #12,488 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SV", "SVP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sus, spelled S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Dessus.
- 2Formule familière destinée à exciter, à encourager ou à exhorter ; pourchassons, attaquons-nous à une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] peu de temps avant la première Croisade, Alexandre II (1061-1073) déclara que le devoir des chrétiens était de courir sus aux Sarrazins, persécuteurs des fidèles, mais d’épargner les Juifs, gens paisibles et inoffensifs.
T'es attaches sus tes bottes, ça t'empêche de caler dans la neige.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).