suture

\sy.tyʁ\

/\sy.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“suture” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,179
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jointure de deux parties du crâne qui entrent l’une dans l’autre par des dentelures et qui paraissent comme cousues ensemble.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suture · suture · French

suture · rank #21,179 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,179
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH supplice

Nearest frequency peer: supplice (-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 « suture »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « suture » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

suture vs sutures
86% similar
suture vs sure
67% similar
suture vs situé
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for suture
PropertyValue
Headwordsuture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.tyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#21,179
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suture »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.suturese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « supplice » (#21,178), « Suzuki » (#21,180), « Sunday » (#21,177). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suture » est au #21,179. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around suture (IPA \sy.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,179 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for suture, with forms such as "ssuture", "stuure", and "sutrue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sutures", "sure", "situé", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is suture, spelled S-U-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jointure de deux parties du crâne qui entrent l’une dans l’autre par des dentelures et qui paraissent comme cousues ensemble.
  2. 2
    Endroit où les pièces, les valves qui forment l’enveloppe de certains fruits se joignent et adhèrent entre elles par leurs bords.
  3. 3
    Réunion des lèvres d’une plaie, généralement à l’aide d’aiguilles et de fil.
  4. 4
    En parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit dont on a retranché quelque partie, désigne le travail que l’on fait pour empêcher que la suppression ne paraisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans le parcours de la suture sagittale à environ 1 centimètre au-dessus de la petite fontanelle, il se produit aussi assez souvent un élargissement rhomboïdal de la suture, qui peut conduire à des erreurs.
  2. Suture longitudinale.

This word in other languages

suture(English)sutura(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ssuture
  • stuure
  • sutrue
  • sutture
  • sutuer
  • suturre
  • suutre
  • usture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suture - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ssuture1stuure2sutrue2sutture1sutuer2suturre1suutre2usture2
Edit distance from "suture"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suture"?
"suture" is spelled S-U-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.tyʁ\.
What does "suture" mean?
As a noun, "suture" means: Jointure de deux parties du crâne qui entrent l’une dans l’autre par des dentelures et qui paraissent comme cousues ensemble.
What words are commonly confused with "suture"?
"suture" is commonly confused with "sutures", "sure", "situé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suture" is \sy.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suture" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suture", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Suzuki#21,180Sunday#21,177tasses#21,183strong#21,174

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

smash8 variantsubuntu8 variantsveuves8 variantsVillette8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list