surrénale
\sy(ʁ).ʁe.nal\
The verdict
“surrénale” is uncommon French (frequency #89,217 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glande surrénale (mot surtout utilisé au pluriel).
Corpus desk
Index FR-surrenale · surrénale · French
surrénale · rank #89,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,217
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surimi
Nearest frequency peer: surimi (-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 « surrénale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superbus
superbus
10,787 corpus weight
- supplétif
supplétif
10,786 corpus weight
- surimi
surimi
10,785 corpus weight
- surrénale
surrénale
10,784 corpus weight
- swings
swings
10,781 corpus weight
- swipe
swipe
10,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surrénale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surrénale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy(ʁ).ʁe.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surrénale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surrénale is uncommon French at frequency #89,217 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy(ʁ).ʁe.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Glande surrénale (mot surtout utilisé au pluriel).".
surrénale has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surrénale, spelled S-U-R-R-É-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Glande surrénale (mot surtout utilisé au pluriel).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surrénale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fausse puberté précoce isosexuelle est secondaire à une sécrétion œstrogénique anormale par une tumeur de l’ovaire ou des surrénales sans maturation ovarienne.
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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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