surclassé
\syʁ.kla.se\
The verdict
“surclassé” is uncommon French (frequency #61,169 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,169
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de surclasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surclasse · surclassé · French
surclassé · rank #61,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supporterais
Nearest frequency peer: supporterais (-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 « surclassé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- succulents
succulents
38,834 corpus weight
- supporterais
supporterais
38,833 corpus weight
- surclassé
surclassé
38,832 corpus weight
- surcoûts
surcoûts
38,831 corpus weight
- surpeuplé
surpeuplé
38,830 corpus weight
- surprenne
surprenne
38,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surclassé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surclassé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.kla.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surclassé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surclassé is uncommon French at frequency #61,169 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.kla.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de surclasser.".
surclassé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surclassé, spelled S-U-R-C-L-A-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de surclasser.
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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