surveillants
\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“surveillants” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de surveillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surveillants · surveillants · French
surveillants · rank #23,041 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,041
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supposées
Nearest frequency peer: supposées (-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 « surveillants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supporteurs
supporteurs
76,963 corpus weight
- supposition
supposition
76,962 corpus weight
- supposées
supposées
76,961 corpus weight
- surveillants
surveillants
76,960 corpus weight
- surveillent
surveillent
76,959 corpus weight
- sève
sève
76,958 corpus weight
What this shows « surveillants » 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 | surveillants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #23,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surveillants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around surveillants (IPA \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,041 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de surveillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveillants, with forms such as "sruveillants", "ssurveillants", and "surevillants". 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", "surveillant", "surveillait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is surveillants, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de surveillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surveillants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les postes sont ainsi distribués : nᵒ 1 à la grille du quai un surveillant-concierge ; nᵒ 2 au guichet d’entrée de la cour un surveillant ; nᵒ 3 grande salle d’entrée, le brigadier, le sous-brigadier, deux surveillants ; nᵒ 4 dans l’enceinte cellulaire, six surveillants, savoir : deux au rez-de-chaussée, deux pour le premier étage, un pour le guichet cond…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruveillants
- ssurveillants
- surevillants
- surrveillants
- surveilalnts
- surveilants
- surveillannts
- surveillanst
- surveillantss
- surveillantts
- surveillatns
- surveillnats
- survelilants
- surviellants
- survveillants
- suvreillants
- usrveillants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surveillants - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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 (17 here; floor ≥5).