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“suffira” and “suffirait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,623
- “suffira” frequency rank
- #11,866
- “suffirait” frequency rank
- 20489
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suffira | suffirait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier du futur de suffire. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de suffire. |
Where the eye mixes suffira and suffirait
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. suffira runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against suffirait's 9 (CVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: suffira vs suffirait
A purely visual mix-up. suffira (\sy.fi.ʁa\) and suffirait (\sy.fi.ʁɛ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “suffira” sits inside “suffirait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20489, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suffira is recorded at frequency rank #8,623, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.fi.ʁa\. suffirait is at rank #11,866, tagged as averb, pronounced \sy.fi.ʁɛ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 20489, this pair ranks #368,029 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of suffira vs suffirait
Shared letters: afirsu. Private to "suffira": -. Private to "suffirait": t.
"suffira" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "suffirait" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "suffira" and "suffirait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "suffira" or "suffirait" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "suffira" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suffirait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #368,029 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suffira" and "suffirait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "souffrirait vs suffirait". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #368,029 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.