suroît
\sy.ʁwa\
The verdict
“suroît” is uncommon French (frequency #97,454 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,454
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Direction sud-ouest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suroit · suroît · French
suroît · rank #97,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,454
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surnommaient
Nearest frequency peer: surnommaient (-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 « suroît »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supranation…
supranationales
2,550 corpus weight
- surligner
surligner
2,549 corpus weight
- surnommaient
surnommaient
2,548 corpus weight
- suroît
suroît
2,547 corpus weight
- surplombait
surplombait
2,546 corpus weight
- surtensions
surtensions
2,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suroît » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suroît |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suroît » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suroît is uncommon French at frequency #97,454 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.ʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for suroît in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is suroît, spelled S-U-R-O-Î-T.
Definition
- 1Direction sud-ouest.
- 2Vent du sud-ouest.
- 3Chapeau imperméable qui protège la tête et la partie postérieure du cou des marins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suroît appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une tempête de suroît.
D’autant que, Leterrier ne me contredira point, c’est pas d’la brume de mer, c’tte brume-là : le vent est quasi de suroît, c’est de la brume de terre.
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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