soudevssucéWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: soude is a noun, sucé is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“soude” is a noun and “sucé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,472
“soude” frequency rank
#33,031
“sucé” frequency rank
54503
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soude sucé
Definition Hydroxyde de sodium, de formule NaOH. C'est un produit extrêmement dangereux car caustique pour les tissus vivants (→ voir soude caustique). Aspiré, léché.

Where the eye mixes soude and sucé

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

5 ch
soude
4 ch
sucé

Visual trap between soude and sucé

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: soude is \sud\ while sucé is \sy.se\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54503, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soude is recorded at frequency rank #21,472, classified as anoun, pronounced \sud\. sucé is at rank #33,031, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sy.se\.

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 54503, this pair ranks #133,568 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of soude vs sucé

Shared letters: su. Private to "soude": deo. Private to "sucé": .

"soude" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "sucé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soudeosude · sodue · soudde · soued · ssoude · suode

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soude" and "sucé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "soude" is a noun and "sucé" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "soude" or "sucé"?
"soude" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,472 in our French list, against #33,031 for "sucé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "soude" and "sucé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soude" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sucé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #133,568 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soude" and "sucé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sucé 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 #133,568 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list