surabondance
\sy.ʁa.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“surabondance” is uncommon French (frequency #52,376 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très grande abondance, abondance qui va au-delà du nécessaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surabondance · surabondance · French
surabondance · rank #52,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,376
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sultans
Nearest frequency peer: sultans (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « surabondance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- succion
succion
47,629 corpus weight
- sultanat
sultanat
47,628 corpus weight
- sultans
sultans
47,627 corpus weight
- surabondance
surabondance
47,625 corpus weight
- surnommés
surnommés
47,623 corpus weight
- Swanson
Swanson
47,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surabondance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surabondance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁa.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surabondance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surabondance is uncommon French at frequency #52,376 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁa.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très grande abondance, abondance qui va au-delà du nécessaire.".
surabondance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surabondance, spelled S-U-R-A-B-O-N-D-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Très grande abondance, abondance qui va au-delà du nécessaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surabondance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comte des Essarts , parti de Versailles le 9 Février, pour se rendre à sa terre des Essarts, ayant trouvé que la route de traverse de Damville aux Essarts étoit impraticable & dangereuse par la surabondance des neiges, se vit forcé de rester plusieurs jours à Damville chez le procureur fiscal.
Quand je pense au gâchis des tropiques, au désordre des fleurs, des fruits, à ce luxe, cette profusion, cette surabondance scandaleuse jetée par la terre à pleins bras au premier venu, qui n’a rien fait pour ça, ne l’a pas mérité !...
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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