suite

/\sɥit\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#246

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

suite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce ou ceux qui suivent, ce ou ceux qui vont après. Pronounced \sɥit\. It ranks #246 in French word frequency. Often confused with sure and Suze.

Key facts for suite
PropertyValue
Headwordsuite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɥit\
Letters5
Frequency rank#246
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for suite is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥit\. Corpus data places it at rank #246 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for suite, with forms such as "siute", "ssuite", and "suiet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "Suze", "suivi", 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 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 suite, spelled S-U-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce ou ceux qui suivent, ce ou ceux qui vont après.
  2. 2
    Ceux qui accompagnent quelqu’un pour lui faire honneur.
  3. 3
    Choses qui sont la continuation, le développement de choses du même ordre.
  4. 4
    Continuation, ce qui est ajouté à un ouvrage pour le continuer.
  5. 5
    Époque postérieure à celle dont on parle.
  6. 6
    Série, enchaînement, succession.
  7. 7
    Série de choses de même espèce, que l’on range selon l’ordre des temps ou des matières.
  8. 8
    Série de gravures d’un ouvrage tirées à part.
  9. 9
    Œuvre composée de plusieurs pièces successives.
  10. 10
    Certain nombre de personnes qui ont succédé les unes aux autres.
  11. 11
    Succession d’éléments, appelés termes, indexés par des entiers qui se suivent, pouvant être notés uₙ où n est l'entier mis en indice. Formellement, famille indexée par un intervalle d'entiers.
  12. 12
    Ordre ; liaison.
  13. 13
    Action de suivre le gibier.
  14. 14
    Possibilité de poursuite, de saisie.
  15. 15
    Ensemble de cartes consécutives en valeur.
  16. 16
    Chambre jumelée avec un salon à usage privé.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: siute,ssuite,suiet,suitte,sutie,usite

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suite

Misspelling Variants of "suite"

siute5ssuite6suiet5suitte6sutie5usite5
Misspelling Variants of "suite"

Frequency rank: #246 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suite"?
"suite" is spelled S-U-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥit\.
What does "suite" mean?
As a noun, "suite" means: Ce ou ceux qui suivent, ce ou ceux qui vont après.
What words are commonly confused with "suite"?
"suite" is commonly confused with "sure", "Suze", "suivi". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suite" is \sɥit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suite" come from?
"suite" 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.