suu
\ˈsuː\
The verdict
“suu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,960) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,960
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suu · suu · French
suu · rank #49,960 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,960
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspensif
Nearest frequency peer: suspensif (-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 « suu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- suggéra
suggéra
50,044 corpus weight
- superviseurs
superviseurs
50,043 corpus weight
- suspensif
suspensif
50,042 corpus weight
- suu
suu
50,041 corpus weight
- symbol
symbol
50,040 corpus weight
- Sánchez
Sánchez
50,039 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « suu » 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 | suu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈsuː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « suu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for suu is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈsuː\. Frequency #49,960 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Son.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for suu, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suu, spelled S-U-U.
Definition
- 1Son.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).