suspects

/\sys.pɛ\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,383

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

suspects is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de suspect. Pronounced \sys.pɛ\. It ranks #7,383 in French word frequency. Often confused with suspens and suspect.

Key facts for suspects
PropertyValue
Headwordsuspects
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sys.pɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,383
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for suspects is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sys.pɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,383 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de suspect.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for suspects, with forms such as "ssupects", "ssuspects", and "supsects". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "suspens", "suspect", "suspecté", 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 suspects, spelled S-U-S-P-E-C-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de suspect.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ssupects,ssuspects,supsects,susepcts,suspcets,suspeccts,suspecst,suspectss,suspectts,suspetcs,susppects,susspects,usspects

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suspects

Misspelling Variants of "suspects"

ssupects8ssuspects9supsects8susepcts8suspcets8suspeccts9suspecst8suspectss9
Misspelling Variants of "suspects"

Frequency rank: #7,383 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suspects"?
"suspects" is spelled S-U-S-P-E-C-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sys.pɛ\.
What does "suspects" mean?
As an adj, "suspects" means: Masculin pluriel de suspect.
What words are commonly confused with "suspects"?
"suspects" is commonly confused with "suspens", "suspect", "suspecté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suspects"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suspects" is \sys.pɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suspects" come from?
"suspects" 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.