surgissent
\syʁ.ʒis\
The verdict
“surgissent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,252
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de surgir.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surgissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.ʒis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “surgissent” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around surgissent (IPA \syʁ.ʒis\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,252 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for surgissent, with forms such as "srugissent", "ssurgissent", and "sugrissent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "subissent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 surgissent, spelled S-U-R-G-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de surgir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de surgir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de surgir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srugissent
- ssurgissent
- sugrissent
- surggissent
- surgisent
- surgisesnt
- surgissennt
- surgissentt
- surgissetn
- surgissnet
- surgsisent
- surigssent
- surrgissent
- usrgissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surgissent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “surgissent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-R-G-I-S-S-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \syʁ.ʒis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “subissent” - see the side-by-side comparison. surgissent vs subissent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.