suffoque

\sy.fɔk\

/\sy.fɔk\/ verb

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The verdict

“suffoque” is uncommon French (frequency #67,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,135
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de suffoquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suffoque · suffoque · French

suffoque · rank #67,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,135
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH successoral

Nearest frequency peer: successoral (-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 « suffoque »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suffoque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for suffoque
PropertyValue
Headwordsuffoque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sy.fɔk\
Letters8
Frequency rank#67,135
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « suffoque » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).suffoquetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « successoral » (#67,134), « superstitieuse » (#67,136), « suppôts » (#67,137). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suffoque » est au #67,135. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

suffoque is uncommon French at frequency #67,135 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.fɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

suffoque doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suffoque, spelled S-U-F-F-O-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de suffoquer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de suffoquer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de suffoquer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de suffoquer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de suffoquer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suffoque"?
"suffoque" is spelled S-U-F-F-O-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.fɔk\.
What does "suffoque" mean?
As a verb, "suffoque" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de suffoquer.
How do you pronounce "suffoque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suffoque" is \sy.fɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suffoque" come from?
"suffoque" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suffoque", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

surdouée#67,140specimen#67,126sommiers#67,120Socrates#67,118

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list