surutiliser
\sy.ʁy.ti.li.ze\
The verdict
“surutiliser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utiliser plus que la moyenne, ou excessivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surutiliser · surutiliser · French
surutiliser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surutiliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.ʁy.ti.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surutiliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surutiliser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.ʁy.ti.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utiliser plus que la moyenne, ou excessivement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for surutiliser, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 surutiliser, spelled S-U-R-U-T-I-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Utiliser plus que la moyenne, ou excessivement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surutiliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les leaders potentiels se sentent parfois surutilisés, n’ont pas assez de temps pour tout faire et estiment qu’on ne peut leur en demander plus.
Lorsque l’entreprise se situe sur la partie décroissante de la courbe de coût moyen de longue période, elle a intérêt à sous-utiliser légèrement ses installations plutôt qu’à surutiliser des installations de plus faible importance.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.