surnommait
\syʁ.nɔ.mɛ\
The verdict
“surnommait” is uncommon French (frequency #51,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surnommer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surnommait · surnommait · French
surnommait · rank #51,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,161
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surnombre
Nearest frequency peer: surnombre (-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 « surnommait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Swaziland
Swaziland
48,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surnommait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surnommait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.nɔ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surnommait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surnommait is uncommon French at frequency #51,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.nɔ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surnommer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for surnommait in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is surnommait, spelled S-U-R-N-O-M-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surnommer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surnommait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mesure qu’on a drainé, déjonqué, défriché la Bresse, elle a cessé de disséminer des fièvres ; le Bressan, chaussé de sabots sur sa terre de glaise, s’en est regaillardi d’autant, lui qu’on surnommait proverbialement, par une vive allitération, le laid, lourd, long, lent, lâche.
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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