surseoir
\syʁ.swaʁ\
The verdict
“surseoir” is uncommon French (frequency #61,173 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,173
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspendre ; interrompre temporairement. Note d’usage : s’utilise en parlant d’une affaire, d’une procédure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surseoir · surseoir · French
surseoir · rank #61,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,173
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surprenne
Nearest frequency peer: surprenne (-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 « surseoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surcoûts
surcoûts
38,831 corpus weight
- surpeuplé
surpeuplé
38,830 corpus weight
- surprenne
surprenne
38,829 corpus weight
- surseoir
surseoir
38,828 corpus weight
- susvisée
susvisée
38,827 corpus weight
- tacher
tacher
38,825 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surseoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surseoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surseoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surseoir is uncommon French at frequency #61,173 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for surseoir in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 surseoir, spelled S-U-R-S-E-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Suspendre ; interrompre temporairement. Note d’usage : s’utilise en parlant d’une affaire, d’une procédure.
- 2Tarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surseoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ensuite elle a tout fait pour me garder auprès d’elle, TOUT ! afin que je sursoie à l’enquête.
Fadus ne faisait donc qu’exécuter là un ordre de Claude, lequel renouait avec la pratique d’avant Tibère. Les religieux obtinrent toutefois de Fadus qu’il sursît jusqu’à la réponse de l’empereur à leur supplique.
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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