surplombent
\syʁ.plɔ̃b\
The verdict
“surplombent” is uncommon French (frequency #58,966 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,966
- 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 surplomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surplombent · surplombent · French
surplombent · rank #58,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,966
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supplement
Nearest frequency peer: supplement (-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 « surplombent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Suissesse
Suissesse
41,038 corpus weight
- superpuissa…
superpuissance
41,037 corpus weight
- supplement
supplement
41,036 corpus weight
- surplombent
surplombent
41,035 corpus weight
- surprenez
surprenez
41,034 corpus weight
- sursauts
sursauts
41,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surplombent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surplombent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.plɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surplombent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surplombent is uncommon French at frequency #58,966 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.plɔ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for surplombent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surplombent, spelled S-U-R-P-L-O-M-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surplomber.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de surplomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surplombent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils franchissent la Saire au pont du Vast, longent l’orée des bois de Pépinvast et du Rabey et enfin surplombent la baie de Morsalines.
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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