surcharge

\syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\

/\syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“surcharge” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,014. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,014
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouvelle charge ajoutée à la charge ordinaire, normale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-surcharge · surcharge · French

surcharge · rank #17,014 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,014
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surveillant

Nearest frequency peer: surveillant (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « surcharge »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « surcharge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

surcharge vs surchargés
80% similar
surcharge vs surcharger
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for surcharge
PropertyValue
Headwordsurcharge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#17,014
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surcharge »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).surchargese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « surveillant » (#17,015), « suffisants » (#17,012), « SUV » (#17,016). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surcharge » est au #17,014. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around surcharge (IPA \syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,014 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for surcharge, with forms such as "srucharge", "ssurcharge", and "sucrharge". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "surchargés", "surcharger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is surcharge, spelled S-U-R-C-H-A-R-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nouvelle charge ajoutée à la charge ordinaire, normale.
  2. 2
    Mots écrits par-dessus d’autres pour les recouvrir et les remplacer.
  3. 3
    Nouvelle valeur ou autre mention rajoutée sur un timbre en surimpression.
  4. 4
    Création de plusieurs méthodes d’une classe ayant le même nom, mais dont les arguments diffèrent.
  5. 5
    Surintensité.
  6. 6
    Poids trop important par rapport au poids admissible.
  7. 7
    Complément d’information, correction ou mise en valeur d’éléments cartographiques, ajouté sur une carte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how surcharge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De la grandeur morne de ces lieux, elle avait pris comme une surcharge de fatalisme et de rêve.
  2. Faire une surcharge.

Antonyms

masquageredéfinition

This word in other languages

overload(English)sobrecarga(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • srucharge
  • ssurcharge
  • sucrharge
  • surcahrge
  • surccharge
  • surchagre
  • surchareg
  • surchargge
  • surcharrge
  • surchharge
  • surchrage
  • surhcarge
  • surrcharge
  • usrcharge

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surcharge - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

srucharge2ssurcharge1sucrharge2surcahrge2surccharge1surchagre2surchareg2surchargge1
Edit distance from "surcharge"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surcharge"?
"surcharge" is spelled S-U-R-C-H-A-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\.
What does "surcharge" mean?
As a noun, "surcharge" means: Nouvelle charge ajoutée à la charge ordinaire, normale.
What words are commonly confused with "surcharge"?
"surcharge" is commonly confused with "surchargés", "surcharger". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "surcharge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surcharge" is \syʁ.ʃaʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "surcharge" come from?
"surcharge" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surcharge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

synagogue#17,018sécurisée#17,020Tottenham#17,025résistent#16,994

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

suffisants14 variantssignifiait14 variantsrentables14 variantsabsurdité14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list