surbaissé
\syʁ.bɛ.se\
The verdict
“surbaissé” is uncommon French (frequency #88,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les arcades ou les voûtes qui ne sont pas en plein cintre et dont la montée est moindre que la moitié de leur ouverture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surbaisse · surbaissé · French
surbaissé · rank #88,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surat
Nearest frequency peer: surat (-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 « surbaissé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- susini
susini
11,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surbaissé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surbaissé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.bɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surbaissé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surbaissé is uncommon French at frequency #88,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.bɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for surbaissé, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surbaissé, spelled S-U-R-B-A-I-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les arcades ou les voûtes qui ne sont pas en plein cintre et dont la montée est moindre que la moitié de leur ouverture.
- 2faible garde au sol
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surbaissé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une voûte surbaissée, un arc brisé surbaissé.
… les lourds cintres surbaissés de M. de Brosse, ce gauche architecte du portail Saint-Gervais, voilà pour l’art.
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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