suffocation
\sy.fɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“suffocation” is uncommon French (frequency #61,920 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,920
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étouffement, perte de respiration ou grande difficulté de respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suffocation · suffocation · French
suffocation · rank #61,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,920
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sudation
Nearest frequency peer: sudation (-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 « suffocation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- substituée
substituée
38,084 corpus weight
- succombent
succombent
38,083 corpus weight
- sudation
sudation
38,082 corpus weight
- suffocation
suffocation
38,081 corpus weight
- summary
summary
38,080 corpus weight
- supporterai
supporterai
38,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suffocation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suffocation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.fɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suffocation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suffocation is uncommon French at frequency #61,920 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.fɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étouffement, perte de respiration ou grande difficulté de respirer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for suffocation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is suffocation, spelled S-U-F-F-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Étouffement, perte de respiration ou grande difficulté de respirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suffocation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux morts, ajoute M.de la Brousse, n'ont pas été secourus par les vessicatoires, parce qu'il les a vus trop tard (c'est-à-dire le huitième jour de l'invasion.) ils sont morts le onze & le trezieme jour. Le nommé Boyard a eu les quatre derniers jours un ptyalisme abondant , & un pouls fimbrié, qui m'a fait présumer (suivant M Leclerc) une éruption int…
Plein d’orgueil, il essaya pendant quelques secondes de lutter contre les larmes qui l’étranglaient. Il eut une suffocation, puis, sans cris, il se mit à pleurer par grands sanglots qui le secouaient précipitamment.
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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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