sucvssucéTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#44,755
“suc” frequency rank
#33,031
“sucé” frequency rank
77786
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suc sucé
Definition Liquide organique animal. Aspiré, léché.

Where the eye mixes suc and sucé

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. suc runs 3 letters (CVC) against sucé's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
suc
4 ch
sucé

Look-alike desk: suc vs sucé

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: suc is \syk\ while sucé is \sy.se\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “suc” sits inside “sucé”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77786, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suc is recorded at frequency rank #44,755, classified as anoun, pronounced \syk\. 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 77786, this pair ranks #27,475 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of suc vs sucé

Shared letters: csu. Private to "suc": -. Private to "sucé": é.

"suc" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "sucé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "suc" for "sucé" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "suc" is a noun and "sucé" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "suc" vs "sucé" - which ranks higher?
"sucé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,031 in our French list, against #44,755 for "suc". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "suc" 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 #27,475 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suc" and "sucé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suc vs suu". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #27,475 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