surimpression
\sy.ʁɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“surimpression” is uncommon French (frequency #80,687 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,687
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impression superposée d’un motif sur une surface déjà imprimée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surimpression · surimpression · French
surimpression · rank #80,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,687
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surannée
Nearest frequency peer: surannée (-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 « surimpression »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supervisait
supervisait
19,318 corpus weight
- suppléé
suppléé
19,317 corpus weight
- suppositoire
suppositoire
19,316 corpus weight
- surannée
surannée
19,315 corpus weight
- surimpressi…
surimpression
19,314 corpus weight
- sustentation
sustentation
19,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surimpression » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surimpression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #80,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surimpression » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surimpression is uncommon French at frequency #80,687 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
surimpression has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 surimpression, spelled S-U-R-I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Impression superposée d’un motif sur une surface déjà imprimée.
- 2Superposition de deux images sur le négatif d'un film ou d'une photographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surimpression appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sigle est rajouté en surimpression sur l’affiche.
Surimpression d’un filet de paragraphe.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).