surveillants

\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\

/\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « surveillants » 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).

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

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

Key facts for surveillants
PropertyValue
Headwordsurveillants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#23,041
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surveillants »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « supposées » (#23,040), « surveillent » (#23,042), « supposition » (#23,039). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « surveillants » est au #23,041. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de surveillant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

sruveillants2ssurveillants1surevillants2surrveillants1surveilalnts2surveilants1surveillannts1surveillanst2
Edit distance from "surveillants"

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 "surveillants"?
"surveillants" is spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\.
What does "surveillants" mean?
As a noun, "surveillants" means: Pluriel de surveillant.
What words are commonly confused with "surveillants"?
"surveillants" is commonly confused with "surveillent", "surveillant", "surveillait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "surveillants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surveillants" is \syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "surveillants" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surveillants", 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 (17 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list