surnuméraire
\syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“surnuméraire” is uncommon French (frequency #67,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en surnombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surnumeraire · surnuméraire · French
surnuméraire · rank #67,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,141
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surdouée
Nearest frequency peer: surdouée (-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 « surnuméraire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suralimenta…
suralimentation
32,863 corpus weight
- surcouche
surcouche
32,862 corpus weight
- surdouée
surdouée
32,861 corpus weight
- surnuméraire
surnuméraire
32,860 corpus weight
- surreprésen…
surreprésentation
32,859 corpus weight
- sustainable
sustainable
32,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surnuméraire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surnuméraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surnuméraire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surnuméraire is uncommon French at frequency #67,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for surnuméraire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surnuméraire, spelled S-U-R-N-U-M-É-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est en surnombre.
- 2Qualifie certains os courts qui ne sont pas présents chez tous les individus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surnuméraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs, le document suivant, trouvé par le 4ᵉ régiment surnuméraire d’infanterie […] est une grave preuve de ce que j’avance.
Quel malaise, aussi, quand les lampes se rallumaient : je m’étais déchiré d’amour pour ces personnages et ils avaient disparu, remportant leur monde ; j’avais senti leur victoire dans mes os, pourtant c’était la leur et non la mienne : dans la rue, je me retrouvais surnuméraire.
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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