suive
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,330
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
suive is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre. Pronounced \sɥiv\. Often confused with SUV and sure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɥiv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for suive is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,330 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 suive, with forms such as "siuve", "ssuive", and "suiev". 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, "SUV", "sure", "Suze", 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 suive, spelled S-U-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: siuve,ssuive,suiev,suivve,suvie,usive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suive
Misspelling Variants of "suive"
Frequency rank: #18,330 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index: