Sussex
\sɔ.sɛks\
The verdict
“Sussex” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comté historique d’Angleterre bordé par le Surrey, le Kent, le Hampshire et la Manche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sussex · Sussex · French
Sussex · rank #42,639 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,639
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspecter
Nearest frequency peer: suspecter (-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 « Sussex »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supportez
supportez
57,365 corpus weight
- suprêmes
suprêmes
57,364 corpus weight
- suspecter
suspecter
57,363 corpus weight
- Sussex
Sussex
57,362 corpus weight
- Sweeney
Sweeney
57,361 corpus weight
- syndiqué
syndiqué
57,360 corpus weight
What this shows « Sussex » 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 | Sussex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sɛks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sussex »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Sussex (IPA \sɔ.sɛks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,639 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Comté historique d’Angleterre bordé par le Surrey, le Kent, le Hampshire et la Manche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sussex, with forms such as "ssusex", "ssussex", and "susesx". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Suisse", "sunset", "Sousse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Sussex, spelled S-U-S-S-E-X.
Definition
- 1Comté historique d’Angleterre bordé par le Surrey, le Kent, le Hampshire et la Manche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sussex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’occasion pour eux de saluer l’heureux vainqueur Frankie Dettori qui en avait profité pour glisser quelques mots à la duchesse de Sussex.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssusex
- ssussex
- susesx
- susex
- sussexx
- sussxe
- usssex
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sussex - 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).