suivre

/\sɥivʁ\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#815

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

suivre is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller ou venir après. Pronounced \sɥivʁ\. It ranks #815 in French word frequency. Often confused with sure and survie.

Key facts for suivre
PropertyValue
Headwordsuivre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɥivʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#815
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for suivre is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɥivʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #815 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for suivre, with forms such as "siuvre", "ssuivre", and "suirve". 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, "sure", "survie", "suture", 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 suivre, spelled S-U-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aller ou venir après.
  2. 2
    S’intéresser ; porter de l'attention.
  3. 3
    En parlant des choses.
  4. 4
    Aller après pour atteindre et pour prendre.
  5. 5
    Accompagner, escorter, aller avec.
  6. 6
    Observer ; surveiller.
  7. 7
    Aller, continuer d’aller dans une même direction.
  8. 8
    Aller, continuer d’aller dans une même direction.
  9. 9
    Comprendre le raisonnement de quelqu’un, son enchaînement, ses implications, ses sous-entendus.
  10. 10
    Assister à.
  11. 11
    Ne pas faire d’alinéa, continuer la ligne commencée.
  12. 12
    S’abonner à un compte ou à son fil d’actualité, sur un réseau social quelconque, pour être informé des derniers statuts, photos, messages, etc. publiés par le compte en question.
  13. 13
    S’abonner à un compte ou à son fil d’actualité, sur un réseau social quelconque, pour être informé des derniers statuts, photos, messages, etc. publiés par le compte en question.
  14. 14
    Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
  15. 15
    S’abandonner à, se laisser conduire par.
  16. 16
    Se conformer à.
  17. 17
    Être après, par rapport au temps, au lieu, à la situation, au rang, etc.
  18. 18
    Être la conséquence, résulter d’une chose.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: siuvre,ssuivre,suirve,suiver,suivrre,suivvre,suvire,usivre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suivre

Misspelling Variants of "suivre"

siuvre6ssuivre7suirve6suiver6suivrre7suivvre7suvire6usivre6
Misspelling Variants of "suivre"

Frequency rank: #815 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suivre"?
"suivre" is spelled S-U-I-V-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɥivʁ\.
What does "suivre" mean?
As a verb, "suivre" means: Aller ou venir après.
What words are commonly confused with "suivre"?
"suivre" is commonly confused with "sure", "survie", "suture". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suivre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suivre" is \sɥivʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suivre" come from?
"suivre" 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.