sudoku

See also Sudoku

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• su doku

Etymology

Japanese 数独 (sūdoku), numbers singly

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: so͝odō'ko͞o, IPA: /sʊˈdəʊku/, X-SAMPA: /sU"d@Uku/
• (US) enPR: so͝odō'ku, IPA: /sʊˈdoʊku/, X-SAMPA: /sU"doUku/

Noun

sudoku (plural sudokus)

1. (games, puzzles) A type of puzzle whose completion requires each of typically nine rows and columns and each of as many usually square subregions to contain, without duplication, 1 up to 9 or the grid dimension.

Synonyms

• Number Place (US)

Derived terms

• sudokuist

See also

• Cross Sums
• hitori
• kakuro
• Latin square
• magic square

Translations

a puzzle using numbers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數獨 (cmn), 数独 (cmn) (shùdú)

• Esperanto: sudoko (eo)
• Finnish: sudoku (fi)
• French: sudoku (fr) m
• German: Sudoku (de) n
• Italian: sudoku (it) m

• Japanese: 数独 (ja) (すうどく, sūdoku)
• Korean: 스도쿠 (ko) (seudoku)
• Polish: sudoku (pl) n
• Russian: судоку (ru) (sudóku) n
• Spanish: sudoku (es)
• Turkish: sudoku (tr)

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Finnish

Noun

sudoku

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku

Declension

Declension of sudoku (type palvelu) singular plural nominative sudoku sudokut genitive sudokun sudokujen sudokuiden sudokuitten partitive sudokua sudokuja sudokuita accusative sudoku sudokun sudokut inessive sudokussa sudokuissa elative sudokusta sudokuista illative sudokuun sudokuihin adessive sudokulla sudokuilla ablative sudokulta sudokuilta allative sudokulle sudokuille essive sudokuna sudokuina translative sudokuksi sudokuiksi instructive – sudokuin abessive sudokutta sudokuitta comitative – sudokuineen

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French

Noun

sudoku m (plural sudokus)

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku

See also

• kakuro
• mot caché
• mots croisés

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Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

sudoku m (invariable)

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku

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Polish

Noun

sudoku n

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Japanese 数独 (すうどく (sūdoku, “sudoku”, literally “single number”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /su.ˈðo.ku/

Noun

sudoku m (plural sudokus)

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku

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Turkish

Wikipedia ^tr

Noun

sudoku (definite accusative sudokuyu, plural sudokular)

1. (games, puzzles) sudoku