sursoir
French, verb/syʁ.swaʁ/
sursoir is spelled S-U-R-S-O-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sursoir is a French verb meaning “post-1990 spelling of surseoir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suspendre, remettre, différer. Il ne se dit guère qu’en parlant des affaires, des procédures”.
What does sursoir mean in English?
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of surseoir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Suspendre, remettre, différer. Il ne se dit guère qu’en parlant des affaires, des procédures. 2. Il s’emploie plus ordinairement comme verbe intransitif.
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 sursoir
- avoir sursis infinitive past
- en sursoyant gerund present
- en ayant sursis gerund past
- sursoyant participle present
- sursis participle past
- je sursois indicative present
- tu sursois indicative present
- il/elle/on sursoit indicative present
- nous sursoyons indicative present
- vous sursoyez indicative present
- ils/elles sursoient indicative present
- j’ai sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont sursis indicative past multiword-construction
- je sursoyais indicative imperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sursoir?
- /syʁ.swaʁ/
- \syʁ.swaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sursoir in French?
sursoir appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).