surat
\sy.ʁa\
The verdict
“surat” is uncommon French (frequency #88,132 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,132
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de surard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surat · surat · French
surat · rank #88,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supériorités
Nearest frequency peer: supériorités (-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 « surat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sundgau
Sundgau
11,872 corpus weight
- superintend…
superintendant
11,871 corpus weight
- supériorités
supériorités
11,870 corpus weight
- surat
surat
11,869 corpus weight
- surbaissé
surbaissé
11,868 corpus weight
- surpuissants
surpuissants
11,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surat is uncommon French at frequency #88,132 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de surard.".
surat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 surat, spelled S-U-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de surard.
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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