suivais
\sɥi.vɛ\
The verdict
“suivais” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,142
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe suivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suivais · suivais · French
suivais · rank #25,142 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,142
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subtiles
Nearest frequency peer: subtiles (-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 « suivais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stèle
stèle
74,862 corpus weight
- subtilement
subtilement
74,861 corpus weight
- subtiles
subtiles
74,860 corpus weight
- suivais
suivais
74,859 corpus weight
- surveillés
surveillés
74,858 corpus weight
- symposium
symposium
74,857 corpus weight
What this shows « suivais » 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 | suivais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɥi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « suivais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around suivais (IPA \sɥi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,142 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for suivais, with forms such as "siuvais", "ssuivais", and "suiavis". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "suivi", "suivie", "suivis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is suivais, spelled S-U-I-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe suivre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe suivre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- siuvais
- ssuivais
- suiavis
- suivaiss
- suivasi
- suivias
- suivvais
- suviais
- usivais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suivais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suivais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).