surnuméraires
\syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“surnuméraires” is uncommon French (frequency #73,582 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,582
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de surnuméraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surnumeraires · surnuméraires · French
surnuméraires · rank #73,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,582
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surmontent
Nearest frequency peer: surmontent (-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 « surnuméraires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surdimensio…
surdimensionnés
26,422 corpus weight
- surfacturat…
surfacturation
26,421 corpus weight
- surmontent
surmontent
26,420 corpus weight
- surnumérair…
surnuméraires
26,419 corpus weight
- surpeuplés
surpeuplés
26,418 corpus weight
- survécurent
survécurent
26,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surnuméraires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surnuméraires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surnuméraires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surnuméraires is uncommon French at frequency #73,582 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.ny.me.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de surnuméraire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surnuméraires, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is surnuméraires, spelled S-U-R-N-U-M-É-R-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de surnuméraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surnuméraires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les embryons surnuméraires, objets honteux, doivent être détruits, «désajoutés», après avoir été manufacturés.
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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