Which to use
“suffisant” and “suffisants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,381
- “suffisant” frequency rank
- #17,012
- “suffisants” frequency rank
- 21393
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suffisant | suffisants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui suffit. | Masculin pluriel de suffisant. |
Same sound, different letters: suffisant vs suffisants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. suffisant runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCC) against suffisants's 10 (CVCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - suffisant / suffisants
This is the hard kind. suffisant and suffisants are pronounced identically (\sy.fi.zɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “suffisant” sits inside “suffisants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21393, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suffisant is recorded at frequency rank #4,381, classified as anadj, pronounced \sy.fi.zɑ̃\. suffisants is at rank #17,012, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sy.fi.zɑ̃\.
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 21393, this pair ranks #363,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of suffisant vs suffisants
Shared letters: afinstu. Private to "suffisant": -. Private to "suffisants": -.
"suffisant" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "suffisants" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- suffisant ← sfufisant · ssuffisant · suffiasnt · suffisannt · suffisantt · suffisatn · suffisnat · suffissant
- suffisants ← sfufisants · ssuffisants · suffiasnts · suffisannts · suffisanst · suffisantss · suffisantts · suffisatns
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "suffisant" and "suffisants" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "suffisant" or "suffisants"?
What to do next
"suffisant" and "suffisants" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "suffisant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suffisants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #363,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suffisant" and "suffisants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suffisaient vs suffisant". 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 #363,379 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.