Which to use
“suffisante” and “suffisantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,443
- “suffisante” frequency rank
- #14,160
- “suffisantes” frequency rank
- 20603
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suffisante | suffisantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de suffisant. | Féminin pluriel de suffisant. |
Same sound, different letters: suffisante vs suffisantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. suffisante runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVCCV) against suffisantes's 11 (CVCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: suffisante vs suffisantes
This is the hard kind. suffisante and suffisantes are pronounced identically (\sy.fi.zɑ̃t\) 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) - “suffisante” sits inside “suffisantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20603, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suffisante is recorded at frequency rank #6,443, classified as anadj, pronounced \sy.fi.zɑ̃t\. suffisantes is at rank #14,160, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sy.fi.zɑ̃t\.
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 20603, this pair ranks #367,432 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of suffisante vs suffisantes
Shared letters: aefinstu. Private to "suffisante": -. Private to "suffisantes": -.
"suffisante" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV · "suffisantes" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- suffisante ← sfufisante · ssuffisante · suffiasnte · suffisanet · suffisannte · suffisantte · suffisatne · suffisnate
- suffisantes ← sfufisantes · ssuffisantes · suffiasntes · suffisanets · suffisanntes · suffisantess · suffisantse · suffisanttes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "suffisante" for "suffisantes" ever safe?
Which is more common, "suffisante" or "suffisantes"?
What to do next
"suffisante" and "suffisantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "suffisante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suffisantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #367,432 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suffisante" and "suffisantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suffisance vs suffisantes". 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 #367,432 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.