surprenait
\syʁ.pʁə.nɛ\
The verdict
“surprenait” is uncommon French (frequency #71,941 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,941
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de surprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprenait · surprenait · French
surprenait · rank #71,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,941
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surent
Nearest frequency peer: surent (-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 « surprenait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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sumac
28,063 corpus weight
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suppôt
28,062 corpus weight
- surent
surent
28,061 corpus weight
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surprenait
28,060 corpus weight
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survolté
28,059 corpus weight
- suspendait
suspendait
28,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surprenait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surprenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surprenait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surprenait is uncommon French at frequency #71,941 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pʁə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de surprendre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for surprenait, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surprenait, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de surprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surprenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rô, qui faisait de la chair des pauvres gens qu’elle surprenait chaque jour, de coutumières ripailles, n’était pas seulement une redoutable ennemie, mais, douée par surcroît d’une subtile intelligence et d’une perversion inexplicable, elle savait tendre aux riverains de la côte, pièges et trébuchets, afin qu’y tombassent les imprudents égarés loin du bour…
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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