surprenez
\syʁ.pʁə.ne\
The verdict
“surprenez” is uncommon French (frequency #58,967 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,967
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de surprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprenez · surprenez · French
surprenez · rank #58,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,967
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surplombent
Nearest frequency peer: surplombent (-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 « surprenez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superpuissa…
superpuissance
41,037 corpus weight
- supplement
supplement
41,036 corpus weight
- surplombent
surplombent
41,035 corpus weight
- surprenez
surprenez
41,034 corpus weight
- sursauts
sursauts
41,033 corpus weight
- symétriquem…
symétriquement
41,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surprenez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surprenez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁə.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surprenez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surprenez is uncommon French at frequency #58,967 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pʁə.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for surprenez in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is surprenez, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de surprendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de surprendre.
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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