suricate
\sy.ʁi.kat\
The verdict
“suricate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit mammifère carnivore, de la famille des mangoustes vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suricate · suricate · French
suricate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suricate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁi.kat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suricate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suricate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁi.kat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit mammifère carnivore, de la famille des mangoustes vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for suricate in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is suricate, spelled S-U-R-I-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit mammifère carnivore, de la famille des mangoustes vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.