surpasser
French, verb/syʁ.pa.se/
surpasser is spelled S-U-R-P-A-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surpasser is a French verb meaning “to surpass, outdo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Excéder ; être plus haut, plus élevé ou plus gros”.
What does surpasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to surpass, outdo
Near-synonym: dépasser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Excéder ; être plus haut, plus élevé ou plus gros. 2. Être au-dessus de, surmonter en quelque chose ; il se dit en bien et en mal. 3. Excéder les forces, l’intelligence, les ressources. 4. Causer un étonnement qui confond les idées.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surpasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surpassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surpassé participle past
- surpasse first-person indicative present
- surpasses indicative present second-person
- surpassons first-person indicative plural
- surpassez indicative plural present
- surpassent indicative plural present
- surpassais first-person imperfect indicative
- surpassait imperfect indicative singular
- surpassions first-person imperfect indicative
- surpassiez imperfect indicative plural
- surpassaient imperfect indicative plural
- surpassai first-person historic indicative
- surpassas historic indicative past
- surpassa historic indicative past
- surpassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surpasser?
- /syʁ.pa.se/
- /syʁ.pɑ.se/
- \syʁ.pa.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surpasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surpasser in French?
surpasser appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).