suffrage

/\sy.fʁaʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,080

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

suffrage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération. Pronounced \sy.fʁaʒ\. Often confused with suffrages.

Key facts for suffrage
PropertyValue
Headwordsuffrage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.fʁaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,080
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of suffrage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for suffrage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.fʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,080 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for suffrage, with forms such as "sfufrage", "ssuffrage", and "suffarge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "suffrages", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is suffrage, spelled S-U-F-F-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération.
  2. 2
    Droit de vote.
  3. 3
    Approbation.
  4. 4
    Prière de l'Église militante ou des saints du Paradis pour les vivants et les âmes du purgatoire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sfufrage,ssuffrage,suffarge,suffraeg,suffragge,suffrgae,suffrrage,sufrage,sufrfage,usffrage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suffrage

Misspelling Variants of "suffrage"

sfufrage8ssuffrage9suffarge8suffraeg8suffragge9suffrgae8suffrrage9sufrage7
Misspelling Variants of "suffrage"

Frequency rank: #10,080 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suffrage"?
"suffrage" is spelled S-U-F-F-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.fʁaʒ\.
What does "suffrage" mean?
As a noun, "suffrage" means: Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération.
What words are commonly confused with "suffrage"?
"suffrage" is commonly confused with "suffrages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suffrage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suffrage" is \sy.fʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suffrage" come from?
"suffrage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.