surgissant
\syʁ.ʒi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“surgissant” is uncommon French (frequency #65,550 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,550
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui surgit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surgissant · surgissant · French
surgissant · rank #65,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,550
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surenchérir
Nearest frequency peer: surenchérir (-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 « surgissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- surpression
surpression
34,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surgissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surgissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.ʒi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surgissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surgissant is uncommon French at frequency #65,550 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.ʒi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui surgit.".
Zero misspellings are on record for surgissant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surgissant, spelled S-U-R-G-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui surgit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surgissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« — La terre était formée, mais dans les entrailles des eaux — encore enclose, embryon inachevé, — elle n’apparaissait pas. Sur toutes les faces de la terre, — le large Océan coulait, non oisif, mais d’une chaude — humeur fécondante, il adoucissait tout son globe, — et la grande mer fermentait pour concevoir, — rassasiée d’une moiteur vivifiante, quand Di…
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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