surmoi
\syʁ.mwa\
The verdict
“surmoi” is uncommon French (frequency #68,681 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,681
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concept psychanalytique élaboré par Sigmund Freud, l’une des trois instances de la personnalité, structure morale (conception du bien et du mal) et judiciaire (capacité de récompense ou de punition...
Corpus desk
Index FR-surmoi · surmoi · French
surmoi · rank #68,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surgelées
Nearest frequency peer: surgelées (-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 « surmoi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sucy
Sucy
31,325 corpus weight
- Surcouf
Surcouf
31,323 corpus weight
- surexpositi…
surexposition
31,322 corpus weight
- surgelées
surgelées
31,321 corpus weight
- surmoi
surmoi
31,320 corpus weight
- suçon
suçon
31,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surmoi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surmoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.mwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surmoi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surmoi is uncommon French at frequency #68,681 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.mwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for surmoi, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is surmoi, spelled S-U-R-M-O-I.
Definition
- 1Concept psychanalytique élaboré par Sigmund Freud, l’une des trois instances de la personnalité, structure morale (conception du bien et du mal) et judiciaire (capacité de récompense ou de punition) de notre psychisme.
- 2Posture autoritaire caractérisée par la surveillance, le jugement, la culpabilisation voire la condamnation d’un sujet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surmoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le surmoi découle de la résolution du complexe d’Œdipe : l’enfant assume les interdits du parricide et de l’inceste et s’identifie au parent du même sexe.
Il est connu qu’on oppose, schématiquement, un surmoi précoce pulsionnel, surmoi mis à jour essentiellement par Mélanie Klein, et un surmoi tardif, fait des impératifs culturels et signifié par des commandements : un surmoi lié, nous dit Freud, à la loi.
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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