suffixation
French, noun/sy.fik.sa.sjɔ̃/
suffixation is spelled S-U-F-F-I-X-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suffixation is a French feminine noun meaning “suffixation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mécanisme de dérivation par ajout d’un affixe à la fin du radical d’un morphème”.
What does suffixation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesuffixation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mécanisme de dérivation par ajout d’un affixe à la fin du radical d’un morphème.
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 suffixation
- suffixations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suffixation?
- /sy.fik.sa.sjɔ̃/
- \sy.fik.sa.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is suffixation in French?
suffixation appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).