surveillante

\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\

/\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“surveillante” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,630
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui surveille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-surveillante · surveillante · French

surveillante · rank #47,630 · 16 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,630
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surpuissant

Nearest frequency peer: surpuissant (-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 « surveillante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « surveillante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

surveillante vs surveillent
83% similar
surveillante vs surveillants
92% similar
surveillante vs surveillant
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for surveillante
PropertyValue
Headwordsurveillante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\
Letters12
Frequency rank#47,630
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surveillante »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).surveillantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « surpuissant » (#47,629), « sympathiser » (#47,631), « Supernova » (#47,628). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surveillante » est au #47,630. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around surveillante (IPA \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,630 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveillante, with forms such as "sruveillante", "ssurveillante", and "surevillante". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "surveillent", "surveillants", "surveillant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is surveillante, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui surveille.
  2. 2
    Femme chargée de la surveillance des détenus dans une prison.
  3. 3
    Femme chargée de la surveillance des élèves pendant les études, les récréations et les promenades.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how surveillante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut leur donner une bonne surveillante.
  2. […] la surveillante, madame Cabin, frappa et lui donna une lettre, d’un air de mystère.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sruveillante
  • ssurveillante
  • surevillante
  • surrveillante
  • surveilalnte
  • surveilante
  • surveillanet
  • surveillannte
  • surveillantte
  • surveillatne
  • surveillnate
  • survelilante
  • surviellante
  • survveillante
  • suvreillante
  • usrveillante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surveillante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

sruveillante2ssurveillante1surevillante2surrveillante1surveilalnte2surveilante1surveillanet2surveillannte1
Edit distance from "surveillante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surveillante"?
"surveillante" is spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\.
What does "surveillante" mean?
As a noun, "surveillante" means: Personne qui surveille.
What words are commonly confused with "surveillante"?
"surveillante" is commonly confused with "surveillent", "surveillants", "surveillant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "surveillante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surveillante" is \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "surveillante" come from?
"surveillante" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surveillante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

serviraient16 variantsuniformiser16 variantsRepentigny16 variantséditoriales16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list