surpassent
\syʁ.pas\
The verdict
“surpassent” is uncommon French (frequency #51,766 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,766
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surpasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpassent · surpassent · French
surpassent · rank #51,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,766
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surhomme
Nearest frequency peer: surhomme (-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 « surpassent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surhomme
surhomme
48,236 corpus weight
- surpassent
surpassent
48,235 corpus weight
- surplomb
surplomb
48,234 corpus weight
- survivront
survivront
48,233 corpus weight
- sédentarité
sédentarité
48,232 corpus weight
- sélectionne…
sélectionneurs
48,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surpassent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpassent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pas\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surpassent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surpassent is uncommon French at frequency #51,766 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for surpassent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is surpassent, spelled S-U-R-P-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surpasser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de surpasser.
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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