suffisance
\sy.fi.zɑ̃s\
The verdict
“suffisance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,630
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui suffit, ce qui est assez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suffisance · suffisance · French
suffisance · rank #27,630 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,630
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suffiront
Nearest frequency peer: suffiront (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « suffisance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- spirou
spirou
72,374 corpus weight
- suffiront
suffiront
72,372 corpus weight
- suffisance
suffisance
72,371 corpus weight
- supervisé
supervisé
72,370 corpus weight
- taillés
taillés
72,369 corpus weight
- tapisseries
tapisseries
72,368 corpus weight
What this shows « suffisance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | suffisance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.fi.zɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suffisance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around suffisance (IPA \sy.fi.zɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,630 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for suffisance, with forms such as "sfufisance", "ssuffisance", and "suffiasnce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "suffisant", "suffisante", "suffisants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 suffisance, spelled S-U-F-F-I-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui suffit, ce qui est assez.
- 2Vanité, satisfaction de soi, présomption impertinente. Prétention à détenir la vérité sur un point de détail, ou à dicter la manière de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suffisance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a aucune exagération à alléguer que, pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’humanité, les populations se trouvaient approvisionnées plus qu’à leur suffisance, […].
Cette cérémonie assurait des pluies en suffisance pour l'ensemble des villages limitrophes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sfufisance
- ssuffisance
- suffiasnce
- suffisacne
- suffisancce
- suffisanec
- suffisannce
- suffisnace
- suffissance
- suffsiance
- sufifsance
- sufisance
- usffisance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suffisance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).