suzerains
\syz.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“suzerains” is uncommon French (frequency #82,502 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,502
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de suzerain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suzerains · suzerains · French
suzerains · rank #82,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,502
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH survêt
Nearest frequency peer: survêt (-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 « suzerains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supranation…
supranational
17,502 corpus weight
- surge
surge
17,501 corpus weight
- survêt
survêt
17,500 corpus weight
- suzerains
suzerains
17,499 corpus weight
- séant
séant
17,498 corpus weight
- Séguéla
Séguéla
17,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suzerains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suzerains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syz.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suzerains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suzerains is uncommon French at frequency #82,502 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syz.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de suzerain.".
suzerains has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is suzerains, spelled S-U-Z-E-R-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de suzerain.
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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