Which to use
“shut” is a verb and “SUV” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #41,005
- “shut” frequency rank
- #17,016
- “SUV” frequency rank
- 58021
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | shut | SUV |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Refermer, fermer ce qui était ouvert, fermer. | Voiture bicorps, initialement tout-terrain, souvent à quatre roues motrices, dont l’espace utile commun aux passagers et aux bagages est modulable. |
Letter map: shut vs SUV
Shared letters muted; letters that set shut and SUV apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for shut / SUV
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shut is averb and SUVanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58021, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
shut is recorded at frequency rank #41,005, classified as averb. SUV is at rank #17,016, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.y.ve\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 58021, this pair ranks #111,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of shut vs SUV
Shared letters: su. Private to "shut": ht. Private to "SUV": v.
"shut" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "SUV" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- shut ← hsut · shhut · shtu · shutt · sshut · suht
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "shut" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "SUV" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #111,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "shut" and "SUV" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "shut vs suu". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #111,540 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.