surpayés
\syʁ.pɛ.je\
The verdict
“surpayés” is uncommon French (frequency #94,309 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de surpayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpayes · surpayés · French
surpayés · rank #94,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,309
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surgira
Nearest frequency peer: surgira (-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 « surpayés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suppo
suppo
5,695 corpus weight
- supérieurem…
supérieurement
5,694 corpus weight
- surgira
surgira
5,693 corpus weight
- surpayés
surpayés
5,692 corpus weight
- sva
sva
5,691 corpus weight
- swagger
swagger
5,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surpayés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpayés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surpayés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surpayés is uncommon French at frequency #94,309 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de surpayer.".
surpayés has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surpayés, spelled S-U-R-P-A-Y-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de surpayer.
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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