surpassant
\syʁ.pa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“surpassant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,804 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,804
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de surpasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpassant · surpassant · French
surpassant · rank #64,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,804
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sué
Nearest frequency peer: sué (+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 « surpassant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suck
suck
35,202 corpus weight
- suga
suga
35,200 corpus weight
- surpassant
surpassant
35,197 corpus weight
- sué
sué
35,196 corpus weight
- symbolisait
symbolisait
35,195 corpus weight
- syndiquer
syndiquer
35,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surpassant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surpassant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surpassant is uncommon French at frequency #64,804 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pa.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de surpasser.".
surpassant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is surpassant, spelled S-U-R-P-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de surpasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surpassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et c’est un Français, Aurélien Giraud, qui a triomphé, surpassant la légende américaine Nyjah Huston.
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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