surchauffé
\syʁ.ʃo.fe\
The verdict
“surchauffé” is uncommon French (frequency #71,096 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,096
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un lieu où la chaleur est excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surchauffe · surchauffé · French
surchauffé · rank #71,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,096
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supplétifs
Nearest frequency peer: supplétifs (-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 « surchauffé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suggestif
suggestif
28,908 corpus weight
- suggestives
suggestives
28,907 corpus weight
- supplétifs
supplétifs
28,906 corpus weight
- surchauffé
surchauffé
28,905 corpus weight
- surchauffée
surchauffée
28,904 corpus weight
- svoboda
svoboda
28,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surchauffé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surchauffé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.ʃo.fe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surchauffé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surchauffé is uncommon French at frequency #71,096 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.ʃo.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie un lieu où la chaleur est excessive.".
surchauffé has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 surchauffé, spelled S-U-R-C-H-A-U-F-F-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un lieu où la chaleur est excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surchauffé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et quand elle rentrait dans la chambre surchauffée du poêle où se mariaient des odeurs complexes de tourteaux broyés et de racines cuites pour le lécher des vaches, Finaud la regardait d'un œil mi-interrogateur, mi-narquois, […].
Une atmosphère surchauffée.
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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