surprend
\syʁ.pʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“surprend” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,923
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de surprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprend · surprend · French
surprend · rank #9,923 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,923
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suggestions
Nearest frequency peer: suggestions (-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 « surprend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stp
stp
90,081 corpus weight
- stricte
stricte
90,080 corpus weight
- suggestions
suggestions
90,079 corpus weight
- surprend
surprend
90,078 corpus weight
- séduction
séduction
90,077 corpus weight
- tabou
tabou
90,076 corpus weight
What this shows « surprend » 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 | surprend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surprend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around surprend (IPA \syʁ.pʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de surprendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for surprend, with forms such as "sruprend", "ssurprend", and "suprrend". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "suspend", "surprends", "surprendre", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is surprend, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de surprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surprend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lawrence s’efforce de ramener chaque être à ce qui en lui est vitalité pure. Même les animaux, quand ils ont cédé à la civilisation : un de ses amis, qui possède un renard domestiqué, surprend Lawrence en train de le « désapprivoiser ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruprend
- ssurprend
- suprrend
- surpernd
- surpprend
- surpredn
- surprendd
- surprennd
- surprned
- surprrend
- surrpend
- surrprend
- usrprend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surprend - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).