sucervsSutterTell them apart

Quick tell: sucer is a verb, Sutter is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sucer” is a verb and “Sutter” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,589
“sucer” frequency rank
#37,087
“Sutter” frequency rank
47676
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sucer Sutter
Definition Aspirer avec la bouche un liquide, une substance, le suc d’une chose. Nom de famille.

Letter map: sucer vs Sutter

Shared letters muted; letters that set sucer and Sutter apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
sucer
6 ch
Sutter

Part-of-speech tell for sucer / Sutter

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sucer is averb and Sutteraname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47676, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sucer is recorded at frequency rank #10,589, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.se\. 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 47676, this pair ranks #185,049 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sucer vs Sutter

Shared letters: ersu. Private to "sucer": c. Private to "Sutter": t.

"sucer" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Sutter" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sucerscuer · ssucer · succer · sucerr · suecr · uscer
  • Sutterssutter · stuter · suter · sutetr · sutterr · suttre · ustter

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sucer" for "Sutter" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sucer" is a verb and "Sutter" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "sucer" or "Sutter" show up more?
"sucer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,589 in our French list, against #37,087 for "Sutter". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "sucer" and "Sutter". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sucer" 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 #185,049 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sucer" and "Sutter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sotte vs Sutter". 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 #185,049 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