surveillent
\syʁ.vɛj\
The verdict
“surveillent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,042
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surveiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surveillent · surveillent · French
surveillent · rank #23,042 · 15 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,042
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surveillants
Nearest frequency peer: surveillants (-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 « surveillent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- tabouret
tabouret
76,957 corpus weight
What this shows « surveillent » 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 | surveillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.vɛj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surveillent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around surveillent (IPA \syʁ.vɛj\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,042 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveillent, with forms such as "sruveillent", "ssurveillent", and "surevillent". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "surveiller", "surveillés", "surveillez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is surveillent, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surveiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de surveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surveillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant, ses parents étaient chouettes, mais depuis quelques mois, ils la fliquent, la surveillent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruveillent
- ssurveillent
- surevillent
- surrveillent
- surveilelnt
- surveilent
- surveillennt
- surveillentt
- surveilletn
- surveillnet
- survelilent
- surviellent
- survveillent
- suvreillent
- usrveillent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surveillent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "surveillent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).