suicide

\sɥi.sid\

/\sɥi.sid\/ noun

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The verdict

“suicide” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,800
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’une personne se donnant volontairement la mort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suicide · suicide · French

suicide · rank #2,800 · 9 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,800
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sommeil

Nearest frequency peer: sommeil (-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 « suicide »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « suicide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

suicide vs suivie
71% similar
suicide vs suscité
57% similar
suicide vs suicider
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for suicide
PropertyValue
Headwordsuicide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɥi.sid\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,800
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suicide »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).suicidese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sommeil » (#2,799), « tome » (#2,801), « salles » (#2,798). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suicide » est au #2,800. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around suicide (IPA \sɥi.sid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,800 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for suicide, with forms such as "siucide", "ssuicide", and "suciide". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "suivie", "suscité", "suicider", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is suicide, spelled S-U-I-C-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’une personne se donnant volontairement la mort.
  2. 2
    Personne qui se donne volontairement la mort.
  3. 3
    Action présentant de forts risques pour la vie de celui qui l’entreprend.
  4. 4
    Acte qui anéantit une dimension de la personne qui l'accomplit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suicide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne parlerai pas ici des couvents qui se font maison de force, des affaires de Sens, Avignon, Poitiers, ni des suicides qui ont eu lieu, hélas ! bien plus près de nous.
  2. Le chiffre maximum des suicides est enregistré, ici, au printemps, comme en Italie, et non en été, comme en France.

Synonyms

autolyse

This word in other languages

suicide(English)suicidio(Español)Suizid(Deutsch)suicídio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • siucide
  • ssuicide
  • suciide
  • suiccide
  • suicdie
  • suicidde
  • suicied
  • suiicde
  • usicide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suicide - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

siucide2ssuicide1suciide2suiccide1suicdie2suicidde1suicied2suiicde2
Edit distance from "suicide"

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 "suicide"?
"suicide" is spelled S-U-I-C-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥi.sid\.
What does "suicide" mean?
As a noun, "suicide" means: Action d’une personne se donnant volontairement la mort.
What words are commonly confused with "suicide"?
"suicide" is commonly confused with "suivie", "suscité", "suicider". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suicide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suicide" is \sɥi.sid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suicide" come from?
"suicide" 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 "suicide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sommeil#2,799associé#2,808atelier#2,809donnant#2,820

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

établi9 variantsrelève9 variantspardon9 variantscharte9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list