suffoquer
French, verb/sy.fɔ.ke/
suffoquer is spelled S-U-F-F-O-Q-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suffoquer is a French verb meaning “to suffocate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Empêcher de respirer librement, faire perdre la respiration ou rendre la respiration difficile ; il se dit…”.
What does suffoquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suffocate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Empêcher de respirer librement, faire perdre la respiration ou rendre la respiration difficile ; il se dit ordinairement du manque de respiration qui arrive par quelque cause intérieure ou par l’effet de quelque vapeur nuisible. 2. Étonner fortement, causer une émotion ou une surprise très vive. 3. Faire mourir en arrêtant la respiration. 4. Tuer par étouffement.
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 suffoquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- suffoquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- suffoqué participle past
- suffoque first-person indicative present
- suffoques indicative present second-person
- suffoquons first-person indicative plural
- suffoquez indicative plural present
- suffoquent indicative plural present
- suffoquais first-person imperfect indicative
- suffoquait imperfect indicative singular
- suffoquions first-person imperfect indicative
- suffoquiez imperfect indicative plural
- suffoquaient imperfect indicative plural
- suffoquai first-person historic indicative
- suffoquas historic indicative past
- suffoqua historic indicative past
- suffoquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suffoquer?
- /sy.fɔ.ke/
- \sy.fɔ.ke\
- [sy.fɔ.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to suffoquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suffoquer in French?
suffoquer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).