suives
\sɥiv\
The verdict
“suives” is uncommon French (frequency #95,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suives · suives · French
suives · rank #95,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,363
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stupéfié
Nearest frequency peer: stupéfié (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « suives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Stelvio
Stelvio
4,645 corpus weight
- stupéfié
stupéfié
4,640 corpus weight
- suives
suives
4,638 corpus weight
- supplantée
supplantée
4,634 corpus weight
- surgie
surgie
4,633 corpus weight
- surintendan…
surintendance
4,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɥiv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suives is uncommon French at frequency #95,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɥiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.".
suives has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 suives, spelled S-U-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe suivre.
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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