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すっぱい is an exact match with one form of the following word:
酸っぱい
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Reading : すっぱい   
sour; acid
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 5 (among the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 84,663 which gives a rank of 9,381
酸っぱい is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
• This form is used about 60% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 86,000 (about 2,760,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N1 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 313 (see iKnow! collections)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 46 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
• This form is used as an example of an official Joyo kanji reading
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Example sentences:
オレンジとても
っぱくて
べられなかった

It was so sour an orange that I could not eat it.
ぎゅうにゅう
牛乳
っぱく
なった
The milk turned sour.
ミルク
っぱく
なった
The milk went sour.
すっぱい
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 40% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 105,000 (about 1,630,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N2 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 46 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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サン   す acid, sour   
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sake flask   とり sign of the bird   
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セイ   サイ   にし west   
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
license to go
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イン    license   
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ム   private
legs
go
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