suiveur

\sɥi.vœʁ\

/\sɥi.vœʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“suiveur” is uncommon French (frequency #50,530 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,530
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui suit, en parlant notamment d’un véhicule qui accompagne une course sur route.

Corpus desk

Index FR-suiveur · suiveur · French

suiveur · rank #50,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,530
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH stylée

Nearest frequency peer: stylée (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « suiveur »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suiveur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for suiveur
PropertyValue
Headwordsuiveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɥi.vœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,530
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « suiveur » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.suiveurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « stylée » (#50,529), « survolent » (#50,532), « stockent » (#50,527). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « suiveur » est au #50,530. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

suiveur is uncommon French at frequency #50,530 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɥi.vœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui suit, en parlant notamment d’un véhicule qui accompagne une course sur route.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suiveur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is suiveur, spelled S-U-I-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui suit, en parlant notamment d’un véhicule qui accompagne une course sur route.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suiveur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une voiture suiveuse.
  2. Il attendit que l’auto suiveuse se soit arrêtée derrière son taxi et qu’en soient sortis deux de ses agresseurs de la Montagnola, pour regrimper hâtivement dans la voiture qu’il venait d’abandonner et donner l’ordre au chauffeur de le conduire dans la via San Vitale, au domicile du comte Matuzzi.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suiveur"?
"suiveur" is spelled S-U-I-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥi.vœʁ\.
What does "suiveur" mean?
As an adjective, "suiveur" means: Qui suit, en parlant notamment d’un véhicule qui accompagne une course sur route.
How do you pronounce "suiveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suiveur" is \sɥi.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suiveur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suiveur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list