surcoûts
\syʁ.ku\
The verdict
“surcoûts” is uncommon French (frequency #61,170 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,170
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de surcoût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surcouts · surcoûts · French
surcoûts · rank #61,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,170
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surclassé
Nearest frequency peer: surclassé (-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 « surcoûts »
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 « surcoûts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surcoûts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.ku\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surcoûts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surcoûts is uncommon French at frequency #61,170 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de surcoût.".
surcoûts doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surcoûts, spelled S-U-R-C-O-Û-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de surcoût.
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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