surcroît
\syʁ.kʁwa\
The verdict
“surcroît” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,488. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,488
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Augmentation, accroissement ; ce qui est ajouté à quelque chose et qui en accroît le nombre, la quantité, la force.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surcroît |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.kʁwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “surcroît” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around surcroît (IPA \syʁ.kʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,488 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Augmentation, accroissement ; ce qui est ajouté à quelque chose et qui en accroît le nombre, la quantité, la force.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for surcroît, with forms such as "srucroît", "ssurcroît", and "sucrroît". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 surcroît, spelled S-U-R-C-R-O-Î-T.
Definition
- 1Augmentation, accroissement ; ce qui est ajouté à quelque chose et qui en accroît le nombre, la quantité, la force.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srucroît
- ssurcroît
- sucrroît
- surccroît
- surcorît
- surcroit
- surcrotî
- surcroîtt
- surcrroît
- surcrîot
- surrcoît
- surrcroît
- usrcroît
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surcroît - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “surcroît”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-R-C-R-O-Î-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \syʁ.kʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.