soupçonneux
\sup.sɔ.nø\
The verdict
“soupçonneux” is uncommon French (frequency #52,995 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est défiant, qui est enclin à soupçonner, qui soupçonne facilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupconneux · soupçonneux · French
soupçonneux · rank #52,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,995
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soutiendrai
Nearest frequency peer: soutiendrai (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « soupçonneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sive
sive
47,010 corpus weight
- solvable
solvable
47,008 corpus weight
- soupçonneux
soupçonneux
47,006 corpus weight
- soutiendrai
soutiendrai
47,005 corpus weight
- spartan
spartan
47,004 corpus weight
- spawn
spawn
47,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soupçonneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupçonneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sup.sɔ.nø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soupçonneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soupçonneux is uncommon French at frequency #52,995 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sup.sɔ.nø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est défiant, qui est enclin à soupçonner, qui soupçonne facilement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for soupçonneux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is soupçonneux, spelled S-O-U-P-Ç-O-N-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est défiant, qui est enclin à soupçonner, qui soupçonne facilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soupçonneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un seul amant, c’est ennuyeux, C’est monotone et soupçonneux, Tandis que deux c’est vraiment mieux.
Tout son être se révoltait à la pensée d'épouser un de […] ces intendants soupçonneux et méprisants qui venaient parfois rendre visite à son grand-père et la soupesaient des yeux, comme si elle eût été un animal à vendre.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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