surcouche
\syʁ.kuʃ\
The verdict
“surcouche” is uncommon French (frequency #67,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couche située au-dessus d’une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surcouche · surcouche · French
surcouche · rank #67,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,139
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suralimentati…
Nearest frequency peer: suralimentation (-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 « surcouche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superstitie…
superstitieuse
32,865 corpus weight
- suppôts
suppôts
32,864 corpus weight
- suralimenta…
suralimentation
32,863 corpus weight
- surcouche
surcouche
32,862 corpus weight
- surdouée
surdouée
32,861 corpus weight
- surnuméraire
surnuméraire
32,860 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surcouche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surcouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.kuʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surcouche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surcouche is uncommon French at frequency #67,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.kuʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surcouche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surcouche, spelled S-U-R-C-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Couche située au-dessus d’une autre.
- 2Couche située au-dessus d’une autre.
- 3Couche située au-dessus d’une autre.
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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