suaire
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,009
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
suaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Linge qui couvre le visage d’un défunt. Pronounced \sɥɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for suaire is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,009 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for suaire in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is suaire, spelled S-U-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Linge qui couvre le visage d’un défunt.
- 2Linceul dans lequel on ensevelit un mort.
- 3Enveloppe de caoutchouc dont on couvre son corps pour provoquer une sudation.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,009 in French
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