suri
\sy.ʁi\
The verdict
“suri” is uncommon French (frequency #62,658 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,658
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est devenu aigre, acide, sur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suri · suri · French
suri · rank #62,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,658
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surexcité
Nearest frequency peer: surexcité (-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 « suri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superficial…
superficialité
37,346 corpus weight
- sures
sures
37,345 corpus weight
- surexcité
surexcité
37,344 corpus weight
- suri
suri
37,343 corpus weight
- surrender
surrender
37,342 corpus weight
- surévalué
surévalué
37,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suri is uncommon French at frequency #62,658 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est devenu aigre, acide, sur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for suri in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 suri, spelled S-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est devenu aigre, acide, sur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] la tête d’Holopherne, quand elle baigne ignominieusement dans le sang et le vin suri, près de la robe éclaboussée d’une Judith romantique.
Nourris de lait sûri, d’orties, puis de grenailles de pommes de terre, finalement poussés au seigle jusqu’à frôler le coup de sang, les cochons vagabondent tout le jour dans le pachis — le clos — autour de la maison, […].
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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