surtaxe
\syʁ.taks\
The verdict
“surtaxe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,565. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,565
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qu’on ajoute en surcroît à une taxe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surtaxe · surtaxe · French
surtaxe · rank #39,565 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,565
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surmontés
Nearest frequency peer: surmontés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « surtaxe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surchargés
surchargés
60,439 corpus weight
- sureau
sureau
60,438 corpus weight
- surmontés
surmontés
60,437 corpus weight
- surtaxe
surtaxe
60,436 corpus weight
- surveillées
surveillées
60,435 corpus weight
- sylviculture
sylviculture
60,433 corpus weight
What this shows « surtaxe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surtaxe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.taks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surtaxe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around surtaxe (IPA \syʁ.taks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,565 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for surtaxe, with forms such as "srutaxe", "ssurtaxe", and "suratxe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "syntaxe", "surface", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is surtaxe, spelled S-U-R-T-A-X-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’on ajoute en surcroît à une taxe.
- 2Taxe excessive et illégale.
- 3Amende.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surtaxe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une surtaxe de consommation est perçue sur les « produits de luxe » depuis 1986; sur les importations, la surtaxe est ad valorem et comporte huit taux compris entre 5 % et 70 %. La surtaxe frappe aussi les produits fabriqués localement.
Dans la « guerre de l’acier » — comme « Le Figaro » (9/3) désigne l’offensive protectionniste de Trump —, on ne connaît pas toujours pays par pays le montant des surtaxes douanières qui seront appliquées par les États-Unis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srutaxe
- ssurtaxe
- suratxe
- surrtaxe
- surtaex
- surtaxxe
- surttaxe
- surtxae
- sutraxe
- usrtaxe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surtaxe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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