surélever
\sy.ʁel.ve\
The verdict
“surélever” is uncommon French (frequency #74,413 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,413
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner un surcroît d’élévation, mettre en hauteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surelever · surélever · French
surélever · rank #74,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,413
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surchauffer
Nearest frequency peer: surchauffer (-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 « surélever »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supervisés
supervisés
25,591 corpus weight
- supprima
supprima
25,590 corpus weight
- surchauffer
surchauffer
25,589 corpus weight
- surélever
surélever
25,588 corpus weight
- synaptique
synaptique
25,587 corpus weight
- sécateur
sécateur
25,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surélever » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surélever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.ʁel.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surélever » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surélever is uncommon French at frequency #74,413 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.ʁel.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
surélever doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surélever, spelled S-U-R-É-L-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner un surcroît d’élévation, mettre en hauteur.
- 2Étager les plantations.
- 3Décaler des organes ou des parties d’organe.
- 4Augmenter l’altitude d’un objet en orbite. → voir surélévation d’orbite
- 5Exalter les sentiments.
- 6Élever grandement, spirituellement ou intellectuellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surélever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La décision d’aliéner aux mêmes fins le droit de surélever un bâtiment existant exige, la majorité prévue à l'article 26 et, si l’immeuble comprend plusieurs bâtiments, la confirmation par une assemblée spéciale des copropriétaires […]
Si les plants grandissent encore, on peut surélever les châssis en plaçant quatre pots renversés à chaque angle.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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