sur place
\syʁ plas\
The verdict
“sur place” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - À l’endroit même.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sur place |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \syʁ plas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sur place” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sur place is 9 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ plas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sur place, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sur place, spelled S-U-R- -P-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1À l’endroit même.
- 2Sans progresser, sans voir sa situation s’améliorer. → voir surplace.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sur place”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-R- -P-L-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \syʁ plas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.