surprotéger
French, verb\syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
surprotéger is spelled S-U-R-P-R-O-T-É-G-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surprotéger is a French verb meaning “to overprotect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Protéger excessivement”.
What does surprotéger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overprotect
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Protéger excessivement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surprotéger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surprotégeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surprotégé participle past
- surprotège first-person indicative present
- surprotèges indicative present second-person
- surprotégeons first-person indicative plural
- surprotégez indicative plural present
- surprotègent indicative plural present
- surprotégeais first-person imperfect indicative
- surprotégeait imperfect indicative singular
- surprotégions first-person imperfect indicative
- surprotégiez imperfect indicative plural
- surprotégeaient imperfect indicative plural
- surprotégeai first-person historic indicative
- surprotégeas historic indicative past
- surprotégea historic indicative past
- surprotégeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surprotéger?
- \syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surprotéger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surprotéger in French?
surprotéger appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).