Which to use
“suffrage” and “suffrages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,080
- “suffrage” frequency rank
- #7,764
- “suffrages” frequency rank
- 17844
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suffrage | suffrages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Déclaration favorable qu’on donne soit de vive voix, soit par écrit ou autrement, à l’occasion d’une élection, d’une délibération. | Pluriel de suffrage. |
Same sound, different letters: suffrage vs suffrages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. suffrage runs 8 letters (CVCCCVCV) against suffrages's 9 (CVCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: suffrage vs suffrages
This is the hard kind. suffrage and suffrages are pronounced identically (\sy.fʁaʒ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “suffrage” sits inside “suffrages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17844, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suffrage is recorded at frequency rank #10,080, classified as anoun, pronounced \sy.fʁaʒ\. suffrages is at rank #7,764, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sy.fʁaʒ\.
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 17844, this pair ranks #381,194 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of suffrage vs suffrages
Shared letters: aefgrsu. Private to "suffrage": -. Private to "suffrages": -.
"suffrage" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCV · "suffrages" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "suffrage" and "suffrages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "suffrage" or "suffrages" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "suffrage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suffrages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,194 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #381,194 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.