Suriname
\sy.ʁi.nam\
The verdict
“Suriname” is uncommon French (frequency #69,456 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,456
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Amérique du Sud, situé entre la Guyane à l’est, le Brésil au sud, le Guyana à l’ouest et l’Atlantique au nord, et dont la capitale est Paramaribo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suriname · Suriname · French
Suriname · rank #69,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,456
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supérettes
Nearest frequency peer: supérettes (-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 « Suriname »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supporteront
supporteront
30,548 corpus weight
- supranation…
supranationale
30,547 corpus weight
- supérettes
supérettes
30,546 corpus weight
- Suriname
Suriname
30,545 corpus weight
- surpuissante
surpuissante
30,544 corpus weight
- surrénales
surrénales
30,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Suriname » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Suriname |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁi.nam\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Suriname » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Suriname is uncommon French at frequency #69,456 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sy.ʁi.nam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays d’Amérique du Sud, situé entre la Guyane à l’est, le Brésil au sud, le Guyana à l’ouest et l’Atlantique au nord, et dont la capitale est Paramaribo.".
Suriname has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Suriname, spelled S-U-R-I-N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Amérique du Sud, situé entre la Guyane à l’est, le Brésil au sud, le Guyana à l’ouest et l’Atlantique au nord, et dont la capitale est Paramaribo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Suriname appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Suriname, ex-Guyane hollandaise devenue indépendante en 1975 […] a une superficie de 163 265 km² et comprend les deux territoires disputés aux frontières sud-ouest et sud-est du Guyana (ex-Guyane britannique devenue indépendante en 1966) et de la Guyane (département d’outremer) respectivement.
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); 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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