surpeuplement
\syʁ.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“surpeuplement” is uncommon French (frequency #85,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuplement excessif par rapport aux ressources ou aux conditions d'hygiène, de densité, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpeuplement · surpeuplement · French
surpeuplement · rank #85,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,299
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surnommées
Nearest frequency peer: surnommées (-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 « surpeuplement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supposais
supposais
14,705 corpus weight
- supputations
supputations
14,704 corpus weight
- surnommées
surnommées
14,703 corpus weight
- surpeupleme…
surpeuplement
14,702 corpus weight
- Surville
Surville
14,701 corpus weight
- survêtements
survêtements
14,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surpeuplement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpeuplement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #85,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surpeuplement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surpeuplement is uncommon French at frequency #85,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peuplement excessif par rapport aux ressources ou aux conditions d'hygiène, de densité, etc.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surpeuplement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surpeuplement, spelled S-U-R-P-E-U-P-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Peuplement excessif par rapport aux ressources ou aux conditions d'hygiène, de densité, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surpeuplement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bidonville est un amalgame de conditions de logement sordides, de surpeuplement, de maladie et de pauvreté.
Le surpeuplement carcéral.
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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