surprenant
\syʁ.pʁə.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“surprenant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est étonnant, qui cause de la surprise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprenant · surprenant · French
surprenant · rank #5,504 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,504
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suisses
Nearest frequency peer: suisses (-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 « surprenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- salarié
salarié
94,500 corpus weight
- souverain
souverain
94,499 corpus weight
- suisses
suisses
94,498 corpus weight
- surprenant
surprenant
94,497 corpus weight
- susceptible
susceptible
94,496 corpus weight
- that
that
94,495 corpus weight
What this shows « surprenant » 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 | surprenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁə.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surprenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around surprenant (IPA \syʁ.pʁə.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,504 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est étonnant, qui cause de la surprise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for surprenant, with forms such as "sruprenant", "ssurprenant", and "suprrenant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "survenant", "surprenante", "surprenants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surprenant, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est étonnant, qui cause de la surprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surprenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien que prévisible, la violence est surprenante.
Amil Event a donc reçu pour consigne de prévoir une vingtaine d’obstacles simples mais surprenants sur un parcours d’environ cinq kilomètres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruprenant
- ssurprenant
- suprrenant
- surpernant
- surpprenant
- surpreannt
- surprenannt
- surprenantt
- surprenatn
- surprennant
- surprennat
- surprneant
- surprrenant
- surrpenant
- surrprenant
- usrprenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surprenant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).