surligner
\syʁ.li.ɲe\
The verdict
“surligner” is uncommon French (frequency #97,452 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,452
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire ressortir un élément textuel ou graphique par moyen de changement de couleur, taille ou format par rapport au reste du contenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surligner · surligner · French
surligner · rank #97,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supranational…
Nearest frequency peer: supranationales (-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 « surligner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sulpiciens
sulpiciens
2,552 corpus weight
- supranation…
supranationales
2,550 corpus weight
- surligner
surligner
2,549 corpus weight
- surnommaient
surnommaient
2,548 corpus weight
- suroît
suroît
2,547 corpus weight
- surplombait
surplombait
2,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surligner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surligner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.li.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surligner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surligner is uncommon French at frequency #97,452 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.li.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for surligner in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surligner, spelled S-U-R-L-I-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire ressortir un élément textuel ou graphique par moyen de changement de couleur, taille ou format par rapport au reste du contenu.
- 2Tracer un trait au dessus de la ligne de texte.
- 3Passer un stylo-feutre de couleur transparente sur une partie de texte pour la faire ressortir.
Synonyms
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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