suranné
\sy.ʁa.ne\
The verdict
“suranné” is uncommon French (frequency #61,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,923
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a dépassé la date d’expiration et n’est plus valide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suranne · suranné · French
suranné · rank #61,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,923
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supporterai
Nearest frequency peer: supporterai (-1 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 « suranné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suffocation
suffocation
38,081 corpus weight
- summary
summary
38,080 corpus weight
- supporterai
supporterai
38,079 corpus weight
- suranné
suranné
38,078 corpus weight
- syllogisme
syllogisme
38,076 corpus weight
- symboliste
symboliste
38,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suranné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suranné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.ʁa.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suranné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suranné is uncommon French at frequency #61,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.ʁa.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for suranné in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 suranné, spelled S-U-R-A-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a dépassé la date d’expiration et n’est plus valide.
- 2Qualifie les concessions qui, faute d’être enregistrées dans le temps prescrit, deviennent nulles.
- 3Qui est tombé en désuétude, qui date d’une autre époque.
- 4Très âgé, ou trop âgé pour la situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suranné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est encore dans cette vue qu’Henri II, par le même Édit a défendu de le servir pour prendre date , de procuration surannée.
Peu m’importait d’arrêter mes regards sur un parterre peuplé seulement d’une trentaine d’amateurs forcés, sur des loges garnies de bonnets ou de toilettes surannées, - ou bien de faire partie d’une salle animée et frémissante couronnée à tous ses étages de toilettes fleuries, de bijoux étincelants et de visages radieux.
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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