surveillant
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,015
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
surveillant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui surveille. Pronounced \syʁ.ve.jɑ̃\. Often confused with surveillent and surveillants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surveillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.ve.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for surveillant is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ.ve.jɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,015 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveillant, with forms such as "sruveillant", "ssurveillant", and "surevillant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "surveillent", "surveillants", "surveillante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is surveillant, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui surveille.
- 2Personne chargée de la surveillance des détenus dans une prison.
- 3Personne chargée de la surveillance des élèves pendant les études, les récréations et les promenades. En général, ce sont eux qui assurent les fameuses "heures de colles", qui gèrent les absences, les retards en cours.
- 4Officier qui dans une loge assiste le vénérable, prend en charge les apprentis ou les compagnons dans leur évolution et donne la parole durant les tenues.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sruveillant,ssurveillant,surevillant,surrveillant,surveilalnt,surveilant,surveillannt,surveillantt,surveillatn,surveillnat,survelilant,surviellant,survveillant,suvreillant,usrveillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for surveillant
Misspelling Variants of "surveillant"
Frequency rank: #17,015 in French
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