surjouer
\syʁ.ʒwe\
The verdict
“surjouer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jouer un personnage en exagérant les effets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surjouer · surjouer · French
surjouer · 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 | surjouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.ʒwe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “surjouer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
surjouer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.ʒwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for surjouer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surjouer, spelled S-U-R-J-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jouer un personnage en exagérant les effets.
- 2Exagérer le discours dans la vie parlementaire et dans les relations sociales.
- 3Donner à une chose plus d’importance qu’elle en a, la rendre plus flatteuse.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.