surprendre
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,250
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
surprendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre sur le fait, trouver dans une action, dans un état où on ne croyait pas être vu, en parlant de quelqu’un. Pronounced \syʁ.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,250 in French word frequency. Often confused with suspendre and surprends.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surprendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for surprendre is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,250 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for surprendre, with forms such as "sruprendre", "ssurprendre", and "suprrendre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "suspendre", "surprends", "surprend", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is surprendre, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre sur le fait, trouver dans une action, dans un état où on ne croyait pas être vu, en parlant de quelqu’un.
- 2Prendre à l’improviste ou au dépourvu.
- 3Arriver auprès de quelqu’un sans être attendu.
- 4Se dit des choses auxquelles on ne s’attendait point, le plus souvent des choses désagréables et qui traversent nos desseins.
- 5Tromper, abuser, induire en erreur.
- 6Obtenir frauduleusement, par artifice, par des voies indues.
- 7Remarquer des actions, des gestes qui échappent à quelqu’un.
- 8Étonner, frapper l’esprit par quelque chose d’inattendu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sruprendre,ssurprendre,suprrendre,surperndre,surpprendre,surprednre,surprenddre,surprender,surprendrre,surprenndre,surprenrde,surprnedre,surprrendre,surrpendre,surrprendre,usrprendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for surprendre
Misspelling Variants of "surprendre"
Frequency rank: #7,250 in French
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