suaves
\sɥav\
The verdict
“suaves” is uncommon French (frequency #77,960 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,960
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de suave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suaves · suaves · French
suaves · rank #77,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,960
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stéroïde
Nearest frequency peer: stéroïde (-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 « suaves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stetson
stetson
22,044 corpus weight
- stigmatisée
stigmatisée
22,043 corpus weight
- stéroïde
stéroïde
22,042 corpus weight
- suaves
suaves
22,041 corpus weight
- subsistaient
subsistaient
22,040 corpus weight
- summertime
summertime
22,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suaves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « suaves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suaves is uncommon French at frequency #77,960 among 6,032 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suaves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait, dans les charcuteries, des filles charnues qui traitaient la vie comme une danse; elles honoraient les pâtés de gestes rituels, de caresses douillettes. Oh ! les suaves pâtés !
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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