surveillaient
\syʁ.ve.jɛ\
The verdict
“surveillaient” is uncommon French (frequency #54,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surveiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surveillaient · surveillaient · French
surveillaient · rank #54,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,937
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH survivantes
Nearest frequency peer: survivantes (+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 « surveillaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surchargées
surchargées
45,067 corpus weight
- surexploita…
surexploitation
45,066 corpus weight
- surveillaie…
surveillaient
45,064 corpus weight
- survivantes
survivantes
45,063 corpus weight
- suscités
suscités
45,062 corpus weight
- Sylviane
Sylviane
45,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surveillaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surveillaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.ve.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surveillaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surveillaient is uncommon French at frequency #54,937 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.ve.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surveiller.".
No misspelling variants are generated for surveillaient in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surveillaient, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de surveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surveillaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il habitait une maison perchée sur une crête surmontée d’un miradore d’où ses gardes surveillaient les alentours.
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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