surplace
\syʁ.plas\
The verdict
“surplace” is uncommon French (frequency #56,953 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,953
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immobilité, absence de progression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surplace · surplace · French
surplace · rank #56,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surprendrait
Nearest frequency peer: surprendrait (+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 « surplace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subversifs
subversifs
43,052 corpus weight
- suceurs
suceurs
43,051 corpus weight
- sucrer
sucrer
43,050 corpus weight
- surplace
surplace
43,048 corpus weight
- surprendrait
surprendrait
43,047 corpus weight
- sycomore
sycomore
43,045 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surplace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surplace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.plas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surplace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surplace is uncommon French at frequency #56,953 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.plas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for surplace, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surplace, spelled S-U-R-P-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Immobilité, absence de progression.
- 2Position en équilibre immobile où le coureur a les deux pieds sur les pédales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surplace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La réforme du permis de conduire, entre surplace et marche arrière.
Le surplace économique de la classe moyenne.
Antonyms
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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