surprenne
\syʁ.pʁɛn\
The verdict
“surprenne” is uncommon French (frequency #61,172 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de surprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprenne · surprenne · French
surprenne · rank #61,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,172
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surpeuplé
Nearest frequency peer: surpeuplé (-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 « surprenne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surclassé
surclassé
38,832 corpus weight
- surcoûts
surcoûts
38,831 corpus weight
- surpeuplé
surpeuplé
38,830 corpus weight
- surprenne
surprenne
38,829 corpus weight
- surseoir
surseoir
38,828 corpus weight
- susvisée
susvisée
38,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surprenne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surprenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surprenne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surprenne is uncommon French at frequency #61,172 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.pʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for surprenne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surprenne, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de surprendre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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