surprendrait

\syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\

/\syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“surprendrait” is uncommon French (frequency #56,954 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,954
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de surprendre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-surprendrait · surprendrait · French

surprendrait · rank #56,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,954
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surplace

Nearest frequency peer: surplace (-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 « surprendrait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surprendrait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for surprendrait
PropertyValue
Headwordsurprendrait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#56,954
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « surprendrait » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).surprendraittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « surplace » (#56,953), « sycomore » (#56,956), « sucrer » (#56,951). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surprendrait » est au #56,954. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

surprendrait is uncommon French at frequency #56,954 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de surprendre.".

Zero misspellings are on record for surprendrait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surprendrait, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-D-R-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de surprendre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how surprendrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si l’on considère la délicatesse et la ténuité de la coquille d’un jeune pulex, on n’imaginerait pas que cette enveloppe testacée pût se défeuilleter, si je puis employer cette expression ; c’est pourtant ce qui a lieu bien des fois dans le cours de la vie de l’animal ; encore si cette opération était bornée à la coquille, cela nous surprendrait moins, ma…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surprendrait"?
"surprendrait" is spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-D-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\.
What does "surprendrait" mean?
As a verb, "surprendrait" means: Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de surprendre.
How do you pronounce "surprendrait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surprendrait" is \syʁ.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surprendrait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list