surélevés

\sy.ʁe.lə.ve\

/\sy.ʁe.lə.ve\/ verb

The verdict

“surélevés” is uncommon French (frequency #77,971 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,971
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de surélever.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sureleves · surélevés · French

surélevés · rank #77,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,971
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surviendra

Nearest frequency peer: surviendra (-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 « surélevés »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surélevés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for surélevés
PropertyValue
Headwordsurélevés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sy.ʁe.lə.ve\
Letters9
Frequency rank#77,971
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « surélevés » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.surélevéstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « surviendra » (#77,970), « sustenter » (#77,972), « sursauta » (#77,969). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surélevés » est au #77,971. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

surélevés is uncommon French at frequency #77,971 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.ʁe.lə.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de surélever.".

Zero misspellings are on record for surélevés in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 surélevés, spelled S-U-R-É-L-E-V-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de surélever.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how surélevés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ainsi, en 1673, les consuls « religionnaires » de Nîmes, se voient interdits de chaperon et robe au temple qui se trouve ainsi « défleurdelysé », le temple devant être débarrassé des bancs surélevés qui manifestaient la supériorité des magistrats, tous signes auxquels on ne pouvait qu’être particulièrement sensibles, même chez les protestants, dans une so…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surélevés"?
"surélevés" is spelled S-U-R-É-L-E-V-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.ʁe.lə.ve\.
What does "surélevés" mean?
As a verb, "surélevés" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de surélever.
How do you pronounce "surélevés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surélevés" is \sy.ʁe.lə.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surélevés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list