surélévation
\sy.ʁe.le.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“surélévation” is uncommon French (frequency #57,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,624
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de surélever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surelevation · surélévation · French
surélévation · rank #57,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,624
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH survenance
Nearest frequency peer: survenance (-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 « surélévation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subséquentes
subséquentes
42,380 corpus weight
- surchargée
surchargée
42,379 corpus weight
- survenance
survenance
42,378 corpus weight
- surélévation
surélévation
42,377 corpus weight
- syntaxiques
syntaxiques
42,376 corpus weight
- Séguier
Séguier
42,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surélévation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surélévation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁe.le.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surélévation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surélévation is uncommon French at frequency #57,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁe.le.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surélévation, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surélévation, spelled S-U-R-É-L-É-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de surélever.
- 2État de ce qui devient plus élevé.
- 3Partie surélevée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surélévation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La surélévation d’un mur.
Or, cette surélévation est construite en pierres avec bossages, les créneaux sont plus espacés, l’appareil beaucoup plus soigné que dans la partie inférieure […].
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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