Suze
\syz\
The verdict
“Suze” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,469) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,469
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Drôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suze · Suze · French
Suze · rank #46,469 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,469
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surhumaine
Nearest frequency peer: surhumaine (-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 « Suze »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- subventionne
subventionne
53,535 corpus weight
- supernatural
supernatural
53,534 corpus weight
- surhumaine
surhumaine
53,533 corpus weight
- Suze
Suze
53,532 corpus weight
- Suárez
Suárez
53,531 corpus weight
- swag
swag
53,530 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Suze » 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 | Suze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \syz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Suze »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Suze is neighbouring look-alikes ("Suzy", "Suzie", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \syz\. Frequency #46,469 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Suze, with forms such as "ssuze", "suzze", and "szue". 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, "Suzy", "Suzie", "se", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Suze, spelled S-U-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Drôme.
- 2Rivière coulant dans le Vallon de Saint-Imier (Suisse), se jetant dans le Lac de Bienne.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssuze
- suzze
- szue
- usze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Suze - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Suze", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).