surprise
\syʁ.pʁiz\
The verdict
“surprise” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,350
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on surprend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surprise · surprise · French
surprise · rank #1,350 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,350
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supérieur
Nearest frequency peer: supérieur (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « surprise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- siège
siège
98,654 corpus weight
- sources
sources
98,653 corpus weight
- supérieur
supérieur
98,652 corpus weight
- surprise
surprise
98,651 corpus weight
- U
U
98,650 corpus weight
- vent
vent
98,649 corpus weight
What this shows « surprise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surprise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.pʁiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surprise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around surprise (IPA \syʁ.pʁiz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,350 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for surprise, with forms such as "sruprise", "ssurprise", and "suprrise". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "surprises", "surpris", "sunrise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is surprise, spelled S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on surprend.
- 2Événement inattendu.
- 3Qui n'est pas attendu.
- 4Qui réserve une surprise; dont le contenu n'est pas révélé d'emblée.
- 5État de l’esprit qui est frappé par quelque chose d’inattendu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surprise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’est rendu maître de cette place par surprise.
Il a usé de surprise.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruprise
- ssurprise
- suprrise
- surpirse
- surpprise
- surpries
- surprisse
- surprrise
- surprsie
- surrpise
- surrprise
- usrprise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surprise - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surprise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).