surjouer
French, verb/syʁ.ʒwe/
surjouer is spelled S-U-R-J-O-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surjouer is a French verb meaning “to ham, to overplay one's role” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jouer un personnage en exagérant les effets”.
What does surjouer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ham, to overplay one's role
- 2
to overplay (a poker hand)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jouer un personnage en exagérant les effets. 2. Exagérer le discours dans la vie parlementaire et dans les relations sociales. 3. Donner à une chose plus d’importance qu’elle en a, la rendre plus flatteuse.
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 surjouer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surjouant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surjoué participle past
- surjoue first-person indicative present
- surjoues indicative present second-person
- surjouons first-person indicative plural
- surjouez indicative plural present
- surjouent indicative plural present
- surjouais first-person imperfect indicative
- surjouait imperfect indicative singular
- surjouions first-person imperfect indicative
- surjouiez imperfect indicative plural
- surjouaient imperfect indicative plural
- surjouai first-person historic indicative
- surjouas historic indicative past
- surjoua historic indicative past
- surjouâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surjouer?
- /syʁ.ʒwe/
- \syʁ.ʒwe\
- \syʁ.ʒu.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surjouer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surjouer in French?
surjouer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).