surjet
French, noun\syʁ.ʒɛ\
surjet is spelled S-U-R-J-E-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surjet is a French masculine noun meaning “overlock (stitch)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de couture qu’on fait en tenant les deux étoffes qui doivent être jointes, appliquées l’une sur l’autre…”.
What does surjet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoverlock (stitch)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de couture qu’on fait en tenant les deux étoffes qui doivent être jointes, appliquées l’une sur l’autre bord à bord, et en les traversant toutes deux à chaque point d’aiguille. Il est aussi utilisé pour arrêter la bordure d'un tissu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surjet
- surjets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surjet?
- \syʁ.ʒɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is surjet in French?
surjet appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).