suspension
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,996
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
suspension is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de suspendre ; état d’une chose suspendue. Pronounced \sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,996 in French word frequency. Often confused with suspensions and suspensif.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suspension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for suspension is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,996 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for suspension, with forms such as "ssupension", "ssuspension", and "supsension". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "suspensions", "suspensif", 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 suspension, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de suspendre ; état d’une chose suspendue.
- 2Figure artistique de la danse et du cirque.
- 3État de particules qui sont mêlées à un fluide sans être dissoutes par lui.
- 4Mélange de particules dans un fluide de cette nature.
- 5Forme galénique dans laquelle le principe actif non soluble mis en suspension (au sens physique du terme).
- 6Appareil suspendu au plafond, qui supporte une lampe, des lampes.
- 7Ensemble des organes qui servent, sur un véhicule (voiture, camion, moto, bicyclette, etc.) à amortir les chocs et à améliorer la tenue de route.
- 8Surséance, cessation momentanée.
- 9Action d’interdire pour un temps à un fonctionnaire public l’exercice de ses fonctions.
- 10Sens interrompu brusquement et qui n’est pas achevé.
- 11Construction topologique définie par écrasement des extrémités d'un cylindre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ssupension,ssuspension,supsension,susepnsion,suspenison,suspennsion,suspensino,suspensionn,suspensoin,suspenssion,suspesnion,suspnesion,susppension,susspension,usspension
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suspension
Misspelling Variants of "suspension"
Frequency rank: #4,996 in French
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