surenchérir
\sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“surenchérir” is uncommon French (frequency #65,549 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,549
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une surenchère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surencherir · surenchérir · French
surenchérir · rank #65,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,549
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surgissant
Nearest frequency peer: surgissant (+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 « surenchérir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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substitutions
34,455 corpus weight
- summa
summa
34,454 corpus weight
- surenchérir
surenchérir
34,452 corpus weight
- surgissant
surgissant
34,451 corpus weight
- surmortalité
surmortalité
34,450 corpus weight
- surpeuplées
surpeuplées
34,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surenchérir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surenchérir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surenchérir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surenchérir is uncommon French at frequency #65,549 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surenchérir, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surenchérir, spelled S-U-R-E-N-C-H-É-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une surenchère.
- 2Rivaliser de promesses, être en compétition forcenée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surenchérir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’actrice australienne Nicole Kidman a surenchéri jusqu’à la somme faramineuse de 100 000 $ (soit 97 000 €) pour acquérir le chapeau que portait Hugh Jackman dans la comédie musicale The Music Man, rapporte The Guardian.
Le délai pour surenchérir est expiré.
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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