surhomme

\sy.ʁɔm\

/\sy.ʁɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“surhomme” is uncommon French (frequency #51,765 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,765
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme considéré comme dépassant au moral la mesure ordinaire de la nature humaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-surhomme · surhomme · French

surhomme · rank #51,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,765
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surpassent

Nearest frequency peer: surpassent (+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 « surhomme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surhomme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for surhomme
PropertyValue
Headwordsurhomme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.ʁɔm\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,765
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « surhomme » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).surhommetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « surpassent » (#51,766), « surplomb » (#51,767), « survivront » (#51,768). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surhomme » est au #51,765. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

surhomme is uncommon French at frequency #51,765 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for surhomme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surhomme, spelled S-U-R-H-O-M-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Homme considéré comme dépassant au moral la mesure ordinaire de la nature humaine.
  2. 2
    Personne dépassant la force physique ordinaire.
  3. 3
    Dans la pensée de Nietzsche et dans le décadentisme, homme qui accepte la vie terrestre comme unique réalité avec courage, qui redonne du sens à la vie terrestre, ne se faisant pas d’illusion, qui ne fait pas appel à une réflexion rationnelle et qui se dépasse lui-même grâce à la volonté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how surhomme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En fait, le surhomme apparait comme l’antitype de l’homme démocratique.
  2. Un et un font un lorsque l’addition porte sur l'homme et sur Dieu et qu’on ne confond ni le premier avec un sous-Dieu, ni le second avec un surhomme.

Synonyms

Homo sapientissime

This word in other languages

superman(English)superhombre(Español)Übermensch(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surhomme"?
"surhomme" is spelled S-U-R-H-O-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.ʁɔm\.
What does "surhomme" mean?
As a noun, "surhomme" means: Homme considéré comme dépassant au moral la mesure ordinaire de la nature humaine.
How do you pronounce "surhomme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surhomme" is \sy.ʁɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "surhomme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surhomme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

surplomb#51,767Thuringe#51,781touchons#51,784sidérant#51,745

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list