surfé
\sœʁ.fe\
The verdict
“surfé” is uncommon French (frequency #67,905 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de surfer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surfe · surfé · French
surfé · rank #67,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,905
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supprimait
Nearest frequency peer: supprimait (-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 « surfé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- succédait
succédait
32,099 corpus weight
- supplient
supplient
32,098 corpus weight
- supprimait
supprimait
32,097 corpus weight
- surfé
surfé
32,096 corpus weight
- surin
surin
32,095 corpus weight
- susvisé
susvisé
32,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surfé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surfé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sœʁ.fe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surfé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surfé is uncommon French at frequency #67,905 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sœʁ.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de surfer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for surfé, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 surfé, spelled S-U-R-F-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de surfer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surfé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caroline Garcia a surfé sur la vague de son succès contre la numéro 1 mondiale Iga Swiatek pour engloutir l’Italienne Jasmine Paolini 6-1, 6-2 samedi et rallier la finale du tournoi WTA 250 de Varsovie.
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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