surintendant

\sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\

/\sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“surintendant” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,034
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
19
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a l’intendance, l’administration de quelque chose au-dessus des autres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-surintendant · surintendant · French

surintendant · rank #33,034 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,034
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sul

Nearest frequency peer: sul (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « surintendant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « surintendant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for surintendant
PropertyValue
Headwordsurintendant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#33,034
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surintendant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.surintendantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sul » (#33,033), « survive » (#33,035), « suffise » (#33,032). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surintendant » est au #33,034. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around surintendant (IPA \sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,034 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for surintendant, with forms such as "sruintendant", "ssurintendant", and "suirntendant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 surintendant, spelled S-U-R-I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui a l’intendance, l’administration de quelque chose au-dessus des autres.
  2. 2
    Celui qui était l’administrateur en chef des finances du roi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il y a en outre un intendant de la province, un surintendant des lettres, un directeur des finances, un juge criminel et deux intendants : l’un pour les salines, l’autre pour les greniers publics.
  2. Fouquet était surintendant.

This word in other languages

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sruintendant
  • ssurintendant
  • suirntendant
  • surinetndant
  • surinntendant
  • surintednant
  • surintenadnt
  • surintendannt
  • surintendantt
  • surintendatn
  • surintenddant
  • surintendnat
  • surintenndant
  • surintnedant
  • surinttendant
  • suritnendant
  • surnitendant
  • surrintendant
  • usrintendant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surintendant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

sruintendant2ssurintendant1suirntendant2surinetndant2surinntendant1surintednant2surintenadnt2surintendannt1
Edit distance from "surintendant"

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 "surintendant"?
"surintendant" is spelled S-U-R-I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\.
What does "surintendant" mean?
As a noun, "surintendant" means: Celui qui a l’intendance, l’administration de quelque chose au-dessus des autres.
What are common misspellings of "surintendant"?
Common misspellings include "sruintendant", "ssurintendant", "suirntendant", "surinetndant", "surinntendant". The correct spelling is "surintendant".
How do you pronounce "surintendant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surintendant" is \sy.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ukrainiennes#33,058segmentation#33,007rééquilibrer#32,997restrictives#32,988

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list