suffire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,678
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
suffire is aFrenchverb. It means: Pouvoir satisfaire à quelque chose ou à un but donné. Pronounced \sy.fiʁ\. Often confused with suffixe and suffise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suffire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.fiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for suffire is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.fiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,678 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for suffire, with forms such as "sfufire", "ssuffire", and "suffier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "suffixe", "suffise", "suffi", 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 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 suffire, spelled S-U-F-F-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pouvoir satisfaire à quelque chose ou à un but donné.
- 2Pouvoir subvenir, pouvoir satisfaire aux exigences de quelqu’un.
- 3Fournir assez, faire ce qui est nécessaire pour qu’une chose se réalise.
- 4Être à la cause de quelque chose ; déclencher ou conditionner un évènement.
- 5Ne plus être nécessaire de fournir ou de faire quelque chose ; dans une requête signalant à quelqu'un que les conditions nécessaires à une fin ont été atteintes ou que les exigences sont remplies.
- 6Ne plus être nécessaire de fournir ou de faire quelque chose ; dans une requête signalant à quelqu'un que les conditions nécessaires à une fin ont été atteintes ou que les exigences sont remplies.
- 7Être en suffisante quantité.
- 8Suffire à ses propres besoins, avoir ou gagner assez pour pourvoir à ses besoins.
- 9Trouver en soi le moyen de se passer des autres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sfufire,ssuffire,suffier,suffirre,suffrie,sufifre,sufire,usffire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suffire
Misspelling Variants of "suffire"
Frequency rank: #12,678 in French
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