suivions
\sɥi.vjɔ̃\
The verdict
“suivions” is uncommon French (frequency #80,680 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,680
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe suivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suivions · suivions · French
suivions · rank #80,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,680
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH succube
Nearest frequency peer: succube (-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 « suivions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stérilisée
stérilisée
19,324 corpus weight
- sublimée
sublimée
19,323 corpus weight
- succube
succube
19,322 corpus weight
- suivions
suivions
19,321 corpus weight
- Sumer
Sumer
19,319 corpus weight
- supervisait
supervisait
19,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suivions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suivions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɥi.vjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suivions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suivions is uncommon French at frequency #80,680 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɥi.vjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for suivions in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is suivions, spelled S-U-I-V-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe suivre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel 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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