suffrage
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #10,080 in French
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