ss
\et sɥi.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“ss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,347) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,347
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Et suivante, et suivantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ss · ss · French
ss · rank #6,347 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,347
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soutiennent
Nearest frequency peer: soutiennent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ss »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- réflexions
réflexions
93,657 corpus weight
- saisie
saisie
93,656 corpus weight
- soutiennent
soutiennent
93,655 corpus weight
- ss
ss
93,654 corpus weight
- tenus
tenus
93,653 corpus weight
- trahison
trahison
93,651 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ss » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \et sɥi.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ss »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ss is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \et sɥi.vɑ̃\. Frequency #6,347 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Et suivante, et suivantes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ss in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "sy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 ss, spelled S-S.
Definition
- 1Et suivante, et suivantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les accusations qu’ils [les Juifs] portent contre Jésus (Luc 23:2) ne sont que mensonge délibéré (Luc 20:20 ss).
Le tableau comparatif infra, p. 113 ss relève aussi les correspondances qui existent entre l’index vénitien de 1554 et l’index parisien de 1551.
Synonyms
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.