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“suivante” and “suivantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,937
“suivante” frequency rank
#2,856
“suivantes” frequency rank
4793
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suivante suivantes
Definition Féminin singulier de suivant. Féminin pluriel de suivant.

Same sound, different letters: suivante vs suivantes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. suivante runs 8 letters (CVVCVCCV) against suivantes's 9 (CVVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
suivante
9 ch
suivantes

Ear matches; page differs - suivante and suivantes

This is the hard kind. suivante and suivantes are pronounced identically (\sɥi.vɑ̃t\) 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) - “suivante” sits inside “suivantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4793, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suivante is recorded at frequency rank #1,937, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.vɑ̃t\. suivantes is at rank #2,856, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.vɑ̃t\.

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 4793, this pair ranks #430,678 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of suivante vs suivantes

Shared letters: aeinstuv. Private to "suivante": -. Private to "suivantes": -.

"suivante" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV  ·  "suivantes" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suivante ← siuvante · ssuivante · suiavnte · suivanet · suivannte · suivantte · suivatne · suivnate
  • suivantes ← siuvantes · ssuivantes · suiavntes · suivanets · suivanntes · suivantess · suivantse · suivanttes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suivante" and "suivantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sɥi.vɑ̃t\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "suivante" vs "suivantes" - which ranks higher?
"suivante" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,937 in our French list, against #2,856 for "suivantes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"suivante" and "suivantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "suivante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suivantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #430,678 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suivante" and "suivantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "servantes vs suivantes". 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 #430,678 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list