surcoût
French, noun
surcoût is spelled S-U-R-C-O-Û-T (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surcoût is a French masculine noun meaning “an overhead, supplement, additional cost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, surcout is a different word: “alternative form of surcoût”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de surcout”.
What does surcoût mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean overhead, supplement, additional cost
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of surcoût
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cout en plus, en sus, supplémentaire.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de surcout.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surcoût
- surcoûts plural
- surcouts plural
- surcoût
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is surcoût in French?
surcoût appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).