surface
French, noun
surface is spelled S-U-R-F-A-C-E (7 letters) and appears 65 times per million words in written French, the 1,293rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surface is a French feminine noun meaning “surface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, surfacé is a different word: “past participle of surfacer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Superficie, partie extérieure d’un corps ; ce qui le limite dans l’espace”.
What does surface mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesurface
Near-synonym: superficie
verb
- 1
past participle of surfacer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Superficie, partie extérieure d’un corps ; ce qui le limite dans l’espace. 2. Étendue (d’une contrée, d'un pays, dans un contexte où il ne s’agit ni de sa mesure, ni de la nature du sol). 3. Extérieur ; dehors ; apparence. 4. Au tennis, revêtement du sol (dur, terre battue, gazon, synthétique).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surface
- surfaces plural
- surfacée feminine
- surfacés masculine plural
- surfacées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to surface
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surface in French?
surface appears 65 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).