surpression
\syʁ.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“surpression” is uncommon French (frequency #65,553 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,553
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pression plus élevée que la pression normale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surpression · surpression · French
surpression · rank #65,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,553
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surpeuplées
Nearest frequency peer: surpeuplées (-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 « surpression »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surenchérir
surenchérir
34,452 corpus weight
- surgissant
surgissant
34,451 corpus weight
- surmortalité
surmortalité
34,450 corpus weight
- surpeuplées
surpeuplées
34,449 corpus weight
- surpression
surpression
34,448 corpus weight
- taboo
taboo
34,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surpression » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surpression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surpression » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surpression is uncommon French at frequency #65,553 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
surpression has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is surpression, spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pression plus élevée que la pression normale.
- 2Pression élevée.
- 3Offre promotionnelle à prix très réduit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surpression appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une soupape de sûreté (aussi dite soupape de sécurité) est un dispositif de protection contre les surpressions dans des ensembles soumis à pression.
Pompe de surpression.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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