suffisance
French, noun/sy.fi.zɑ̃s/
suffisance is spelled S-U-F-F-I-S-A-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suffisance is a French feminine noun meaning “sufficiency (quality or condition of being sufficient)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui suffit, ce qui est assez”.
What does suffisance mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesufficiency (quality or condition of being sufficient)
- 2
feminineself-importance, vanity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui suffit, ce qui est assez. 2. Vanité, satisfaction de soi, présomption impertinente. Prétention à détenir la vérité sur un point de détail, ou à dicter la manière de faire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of suffisance
- suffisances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suffisance?
- /sy.fi.zɑ̃s/
- \sy.fi.zɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to suffisance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suffisance in French?
suffisance appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).