Which to use
“suivant” and “suivants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,075
- “suivant” frequency rank
- #3,041
- “suivants” frequency rank
- 4116
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suivant | suivants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est après, qui vient après. | Masculin pluriel de suivant. |
Same sound, different letters: suivant vs suivants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. suivant runs 7 letters (CVVCVCC) against suivants's 8 (CVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - suivant and suivants
This is the hard kind. suivant and suivants are pronounced identically (\sɥi.vɑ̃\) 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) - “suivant” sits inside “suivants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4116, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suivant is recorded at frequency rank #1,075, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.vɑ̃\. suivants is at rank #3,041, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.vɑ̃\.
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 4116, this pair ranks #432,421 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of suivant vs suivants
Shared letters: ainstuv. Private to "suivant": -. Private to "suivants": -.
"suivant" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "suivants" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "suivant" and "suivants" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "suivant" vs "suivants" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "suivant" / "suivants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "suivant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suivants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #432,421 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suivant" and "suivants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "servants vs suivants". 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 #432,421 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.