surtension
\syʁ.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“surtension” is uncommon French (frequency #70,248 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,248
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tension supérieure de la tension normale du réseau électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surtension · surtension · French
surtension · rank #70,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,248
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sursauté
Nearest frequency peer: sursauté (-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 « surtension »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- superpositi…
superpositions
29,756 corpus weight
- supportables
supportables
29,755 corpus weight
- sursauté
sursauté
29,754 corpus weight
- surtension
surtension
29,753 corpus weight
- Susana
Susana
29,752 corpus weight
- sweetie
sweetie
29,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surtension » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surtension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surtension » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surtension is uncommon French at frequency #70,248 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tension supérieure de la tension normale du réseau électrique.".
surtension doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surtension, spelled S-U-R-T-E-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Tension supérieure de la tension normale du réseau électrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surtension appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois l’équipotentialité des structures de masse assurée, il faut limiter les surtensions entre les câbles externes et la masse. Un écrêteur primaire peut être installé à l'entrée du bâtiment pour dériver les courants externes à la terre et réduire leur circulation dans les masses.
Les surtensions sont une des causes possibles de défaillances d’équipements électriques ou électroniques, bien que ceux-ci soient de mieux en mieux protégés contre ce type d’incident.
Synonyms
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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