suspendent
\sys.pɑ̃d\
The verdict
“suspendent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,667 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,667
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de suspendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suspendent · suspendent · French
suspendent · rank #59,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,667
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supposerait
Nearest frequency peer: supposerait (-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 « suspendent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Suki
Suki
40,337 corpus weight
- supporteur
supporteur
40,336 corpus weight
- supposerait
supposerait
40,335 corpus weight
- suspendent
suspendent
40,334 corpus weight
- sybille
sybille
40,333 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
40,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suspendent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suspendent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sys.pɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suspendent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suspendent is uncommon French at frequency #59,667 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sys.pɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suspendent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 suspendent, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de suspendre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de suspendre.
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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