surnombre
\syʁ.nɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“surnombre” is uncommon French (frequency #51,160 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,160
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excédent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surnombre · surnombre · French
surnombre · rank #51,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,160
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superflues
Nearest frequency peer: superflues (-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 « surnombre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subordonnées
subordonnées
48,844 corpus weight
- subsistant
subsistant
48,843 corpus weight
- superflues
superflues
48,842 corpus weight
- surnombre
surnombre
48,841 corpus weight
- surnommait
surnommait
48,840 corpus weight
- suscitait
suscitait
48,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surnombre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surnombre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.nɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surnombre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surnombre is uncommon French at frequency #51,160 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.nɔ̃bʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excédent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for surnombre, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is surnombre, spelled S-U-R-N-O-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Excédent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surnombre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a que six places dans ce compartiment, vous êtes en surnombre.
[…] ils me traitaient sans condescendance, et même avec une particulière gentillesse car ils ne voyaient pas en moi une rivale ; les filles étaient classées au concours selon les mêmes barèmes que les garçons, mais on les acceptait en surnombre, elles ne leur disputaient pas leurs places.
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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