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Which to use

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

#14,161
“supprimée” frequency rank
#3,044
“supprimer” frequency rank
17205
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supprimée supprimer
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de supprimer. Abolir ; annuler.

Same sound, different letters: supprimée vs supprimer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. supprimée (CVCCCVCVV) and supprimer (CVCCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
supprimée
9 ch
supprimer

Homophone desk: supprimée vs supprimer

This is the hard kind. supprimée and supprimer are pronounced identically (\sy.pʁi.me\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17205, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

supprimée is recorded at frequency rank #14,161, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.pʁi.me\. supprimer is at rank #3,044, tagged as averb, pronounced \sy.pʁi.me\.

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 17205, this pair ranks #384,284 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of supprimée vs supprimer

Shared letters: eimprsu. Private to "supprimée": é. Private to "supprimer": -.

"supprimée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVV  ·  "supprimer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supprimer ← spuprimer · ssupprimer · suppirmer · suppriemr · supprimerr · supprimmer · supprimre · supprmier

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supprimée" and "supprimer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sy.pʁi.me\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "supprimée" vs "supprimer" - which ranks higher?
"supprimer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,044 in our French list, against #14,161 for "supprimée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "supprimée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supprimer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #384,284 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supprimée" and "supprimer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supprimée vs suppriment". 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 #384,284 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