surveille
French, noun
surveille is spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-E (9 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surveille is a French feminine noun meaning “the day before the eve; the day before yesterday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of surveiller. With an accent, surveillé is a different word: “past participle of surveiller”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avant-veille, le jour qui précède immédiatement la veille. Il est peu usité : on dit plutôt avant-veille”.
What does surveille mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininethe day before the eve; the day before yesterday
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of surveiller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Avant-veille, le jour qui précède immédiatement la veille. Il est peu usité : on dit plutôt avant-veille.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surveille
- surveilles plural
- surveillée feminine
- surveillés masculine plural
- surveillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to surveille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surveille in French?
surveille appears 5.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).