surcote
\syʁ.kɔt\
The verdict
“surcote” is uncommon French (frequency #93,290 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cote supérieure à la valeur normale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surcote · surcote · French
surcote · rank #93,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suralimenté
Nearest frequency peer: suralimenté (-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 « surcote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supporterai…
supporteraient
6,714 corpus weight
- suquet
suquet
6,713 corpus weight
- suralimenté
suralimenté
6,712 corpus weight
- surcote
surcote
6,711 corpus weight
- swinguer
swinguer
6,710 corpus weight
- synthétisés
synthétisés
6,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surcote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surcote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surcote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surcote is uncommon French at frequency #93,290 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.kɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
surcote has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surcote, spelled S-U-R-C-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cote supérieure à la valeur normale.
- 2Majoration d’un barème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surcote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’une surcote se produit au voisinage d’une pleine mer en période de vives-eaux, il existe un risque important de submersion des zones côtières. (Wikipédia, Surcote)
La loi du 21 août 2003 portant réforme des retraites a institué la surcote qui permet de majorer la pension de retraite des assurés.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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