surveillons
\syʁ.ve.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“surveillons” is uncommon French (frequency #77,066 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surveiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surveillons · surveillons · French
surveillons · rank #77,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,066
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surdosage
Nearest frequency peer: surdosage (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « surveillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supplémenta…
supplémentation
22,938 corpus weight
- supprimerait
supprimerait
22,937 corpus weight
- surdosage
surdosage
22,936 corpus weight
- surveillons
surveillons
22,935 corpus weight
- survols
survols
22,934 corpus weight
- sweatshirt
sweatshirt
22,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « surveillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surveillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.ve.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « surveillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
surveillons is uncommon French at frequency #77,066 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.ve.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for surveillons in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is surveillons, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surveiller.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de surveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surveillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes excessivement gourmands de fruits, nous surveillons nos montreuils, nos couches, nos espaliers, nos quenouilles.
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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