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

#12,679
“suivra” frequency rank
#815
“suivre” frequency rank
13494
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suivra suivre
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de suivre. Aller ou venir après.

Where the eye mixes suivra and suivre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. suivra and suivre follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
suivra
6 ch
suivre

Visual trap between suivra and suivre

A purely visual mix-up. suivra (\sɥi.vʁa\) and suivre (\sɥivʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - a in “suivra” becomes e in “suivre”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13494, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suivra is recorded at frequency rank #12,679, classified as averb, pronounced \sɥi.vʁa\. suivre is at rank #815, tagged as averb, pronounced \sɥivʁ\.

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 13494, this pair ranks #400,799 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of suivra vs suivre

Shared letters: irsuv. Private to "suivra": a. Private to "suivre": e.

"suivra" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV  ·  "suivre" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suivrasiuvra · ssuivra · suirva · suivar · suivrra · suivvra · suvira · usivra
  • suivresiuvre · ssuivre · suirve · suiver · suivrre · suivvre · suvire · usivre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suivra" and "suivre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\sɥi.vʁa\ versus \sɥivʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "suivra" vs "suivre" - which ranks higher?
"suivre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #815 in our French list, against #12,679 for "suivra". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "suivra" and "suivre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "suivra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suivre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #400,799 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suivra" and "suivre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suivra vs sutra". 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 #400,799 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