Which to use
“sister” is a noun and “Sutter” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #33,012
- “sister” frequency rank
- #37,087
- “Sutter” frequency rank
- 70099
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sister | Sutter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Sœur (dans un sens moral, et dans un contexte de personnes anglophones). | Nom de famille. |
Letter map: sister vs Sutter
Shared letters muted; letters that set sister and Sutter apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for sister / Sutter
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sister is anoun and Sutteraname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70099, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sister is recorded at frequency rank #33,012, classified as anoun, pronounced \sis.tœʁ\. Sutter is at rank #37,087, tagged as aname.
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 70099, this pair ranks #52,637 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of sister vs Sutter
Shared letters: erst. Private to "sister": i. Private to "Sutter": u.
"sister" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "Sutter" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sister" and "Sutter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sister" or "Sutter" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've compared "sister" and "Sutter". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "sister" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Sutter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #52,637 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sister" and "Sutter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sister vs sisters". 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 #52,637 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.