suaves
\sɥav\
The verdict
“suaves” is uncommon French (frequency #77,960 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,960
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de suave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɥav\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “suaves” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
suaves is uncommon French at frequency #77,960 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɥav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de suave.".
suaves doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is suaves, spelled S-U-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de suave.
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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Using “suaves”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-A-V-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.