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Which to use

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

#3,044
“supprimer” frequency rank
#34,770
“supprimez” frequency rank
37814
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supprimer supprimez
Definition Abolir ; annuler. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de supprimer.

Same sound, different letters: supprimer vs supprimez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. supprimer and supprimez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
supprimer
9 ch
supprimez

Ear matches; page differs - supprimer and supprimez

This is the hard kind. supprimer and supprimez 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 differ by a single letter - r in “supprimer” becomes z in “supprimez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37814, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

supprimer is recorded at frequency rank #3,044, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.pʁi.me\. supprimez is at rank #34,770, 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 37814, this pair ranks #259,757 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of supprimer vs supprimez

Shared letters: eimprsu. Private to "supprimer": -. Private to "supprimez": z.

"supprimer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC  ·  "supprimez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supprimer ← spuprimer · ssupprimer · suppirmer · suppriemr · supprimerr · supprimmer · supprimre · supprmier
  • supprimez ← spuprimez · ssupprimez · suppirmez · suppriemz · supprimezz · supprimmez · supprimze · supprmiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supprimer" and "supprimez" 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: "supprimer" vs "supprimez" - which ranks higher?
"supprimer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,044 in our French list, against #34,770 for "supprimez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "supprimer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supprimez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #259,757 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supprimer" and "supprimez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suppriment vs supprimez". 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 #259,757 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