suivent

/\sɥiv\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,042

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

suivent is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe suivre. Pronounced \sɥiv\. It ranks #3,042 in French word frequency. Often confused with suivez and survenu.

Key facts for suivent
PropertyValue
Headwordsuivent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɥiv\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,042
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for suivent is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,042 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 suivent, with forms such as "siuvent", "ssuivent", and "suievnt". 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, "suivez", "survenu", "suivons", 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 suivent, spelled S-U-I-V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe suivre.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: siuvent,ssuivent,suievnt,suivennt,suiventt,suivetn,suivnet,suivvent,suvient,usivent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suivent

Misspelling Variants of "suivent"

siuvent7ssuivent8suievnt7suivennt8suiventt8suivetn7suivnet7suivvent8
Misspelling Variants of "suivent"

Frequency rank: #3,042 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suivent"?
"suivent" is spelled S-U-I-V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥiv\.
What does "suivent" mean?
As a verb, "suivent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe suivre.
What words are commonly confused with "suivent"?
"suivent" is commonly confused with "suivez", "survenu", "suivons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suivent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suivent" is \sɥiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suivent" come from?
"suivent" 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.