surpoids
\syʁ.pwa\
The verdict
“surpoids” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,000
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surcharge pondérale ; obésité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpoids · surpoids · French
surpoids · rank #20,000 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,000
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supprimées
Nearest frequency peer: supprimées (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « surpoids »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subsistance
subsistance
80,004 corpus weight
- suivons
suivons
80,003 corpus weight
- supprimées
supprimées
80,002 corpus weight
- surpoids
surpoids
80,001 corpus weight
- tai
tai
80,000 corpus weight
- Tarbes
Tarbes
79,999 corpus weight
What this shows « surpoids » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpoids |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.pwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surpoids »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around surpoids (IPA \syʁ.pwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,000 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Surcharge pondérale ; obésité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for surpoids, with forms such as "srupoids", "ssurpoids", and "suproids". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "surpris", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surpoids, spelled S-U-R-P-O-I-D-S.
Definition
- 1Surcharge pondérale ; obésité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surpoids appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par conséquent, quand les personnes en surpoids sont traitées comme des moins que rien et qu'elles développent des problèmes de santés liés au stress, on leur affirme que ces problèmes sont de leur faute, que c'est à cause de leur poids.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srupoids
- ssurpoids
- suproids
- suropids
- surpiods
- surpodis
- surpoidds
- surpoidss
- surpoisd
- surppoids
- surrpoids
- usrpoids
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surpoids - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surpoids", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).