suffrage
\sy.fʁaʒ\
The verdict
“suffrage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,080
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suffrage · suffrage · French
suffrage · rank #10,080 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,080
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sperme
Nearest frequency peer: sperme (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « suffrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souhaitait
souhaitait
89,924 corpus weight
- souple
souple
89,923 corpus weight
- sperme
sperme
89,922 corpus weight
- suffrage
suffrage
89,921 corpus weight
- suggestion
suggestion
89,920 corpus weight
- sultan
sultan
89,919 corpus weight
What this shows « suffrage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suffrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.fʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suffrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around suffrage (IPA \sy.fʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,080 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for suffrage, with forms such as "sfufrage", "ssuffrage", and "suffarge". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "suffrages", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is suffrage, spelled S-U-F-F-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération.
- 2Droit de vote.
- 3Approbation.
- 4Prière de l'Église militante ou des saints du Paradis pour les vivants et les âmes du purgatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suffrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catholiques, mes frères ; protestans, mes amis, que je respecte et que j’estime, je réclame vos suffrages en cette occasion.
Suffrage restreint ou suffrage universel, on commencera toujours par compter les suffrages, et la victoire d'un parti n'est que le total d'une addition.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sfufrage
- ssuffrage
- suffarge
- suffraeg
- suffragge
- suffrgae
- suffrrage
- sufrage
- sufrfage
- usffrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suffrage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).