surdouée
\syʁ.dwe\
The verdict
“surdouée” is uncommon French (frequency #67,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génie, prodige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surdouee · surdouée · French
surdouée · rank #67,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,140
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surcouche
Nearest frequency peer: surcouche (-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 « surdouée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- surreprésen…
surreprésentation
32,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surdouée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surdouée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.dwe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surdouée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surdouée is uncommon French at frequency #67,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.dwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Génie, prodige.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for surdouée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is surdouée, spelled S-U-R-D-O-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Génie, prodige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surdouée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de trente ans après le tout premier épisode, Maggie n’a pas grandi d’un centimètre, Lisa est toujours une surdouée haute comme trois pommes, et Bart ne se lasse pas d’enchaîner les bêtises d’ado.
Antonyms
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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