surveillance
\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃s\
The verdict
“surveillance” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,391
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de surveiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surveillance · surveillance · French
surveillance · rank #2,391 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,391
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spéciale
Nearest frequency peer: spéciale (-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 « surveillance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- socialiste
socialiste
97,613 corpus weight
- soyez
soyez
97,612 corpus weight
- spéciale
spéciale
97,611 corpus weight
- surveillance
surveillance
97,610 corpus weight
- tas
tas
97,609 corpus weight
- technologie
technologie
97,608 corpus weight
What this shows « surveillance » 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 | surveillance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surveillance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around surveillance (IPA \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,391 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de surveiller.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveillance, with forms such as "sruveillance", "ssurveillance", and "surevillance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "surveillant", "surveillants", "surveillante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is surveillance, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de surveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surveillance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; au temps de la République cléricale, la Société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul était une belle officine de surveillance sur les fonctionnaires de tout ordre et de tout grade ; […].
À cette époque, la surveillance que la police exerçait sur la vaste population polyglotte de Staten Island s’était beaucoup relâchée, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruveillance
- ssurveillance
- surevillance
- surrveillance
- surveilalnce
- surveilance
- surveillacne
- surveillancce
- surveillanec
- surveillannce
- surveillnace
- survelilance
- surviellance
- survveillance
- suvreillance
- usrveillance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surveillance - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surveillance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).