sursauta
\syʁ.sɔ.ta\
The verdict
“sursauta” is uncommon French (frequency #77,969 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,969
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sursauter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sursauta · sursauta · French
sursauta · rank #77,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surpassée
Nearest frequency peer: surpassée (-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 « sursauta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superlatif
superlatif
22,036 corpus weight
- surpassée
surpassée
22,033 corpus weight
- sursauta
sursauta
22,032 corpus weight
- surviendra
surviendra
22,031 corpus weight
- surélevés
surélevés
22,030 corpus weight
- sustenter
sustenter
22,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sursauta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sursauta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.sɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sursauta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sursauta is uncommon French at frequency #77,969 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.sɔ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sursauter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sursauta, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sursauta, spelled S-U-R-S-A-U-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sursauter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sursauta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle sursauta, voulut pivoter dans sa direction, et son coude heurta la fragile pyramide de gâteaux à la broche qui s’effondra dans un bruit sourd.
Julie Carville sursauta si fort lorsque les deux hommes bondirent hors de leur arbre qu’elle laissa échapper le précis de grammaire sur le sol.
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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