surcapacité
\syʁ.ka.pa.si.te\
The verdict
“surcapacité” is uncommon French (frequency #96,422 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,422
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité excédentaire ; excédent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surcapacite · surcapacité · French
surcapacité · rank #96,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,422
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suprémacistes
Nearest frequency peer: suprémacistes (-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 « surcapacité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suintant
suintant
3,584 corpus weight
- sulfurisé
sulfurisé
3,583 corpus weight
- suprémacist…
suprémacistes
3,580 corpus weight
- surcapacité
surcapacité
3,579 corpus weight
- surhumaines
surhumaines
3,578 corpus weight
- surréel
surréel
3,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surcapacité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surcapacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.ka.pa.si.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surcapacité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surcapacité is uncommon French at frequency #96,422 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.ka.pa.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capacité excédentaire ; excédent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for surcapacité in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surcapacité, spelled S-U-R-C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Capacité excédentaire ; excédent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surcapacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le suréquipement est l'excès du stock d'équipement par rapport aux besoins courants de la production. Il se traduit par une surcapacitié productive créant une situation telle, que pour atteindre les volumes de production possibles ou désirés répondant à la satisfaction des besoins courants, il suffit de mettre en œuvre une partie de l'équipement disponibl…
Un des aspects du développement des services que nous avons étudiés, c'est l'utilisation des surcapacités que toute activité traditionnelle génère, surcapacités techniques et économiques d'abord, surcapacités humaines ensuite, les surcapacités humaines rendent possible le développement de nouveaux métiers, en transformant des métiers dévalorisés en métier…
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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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