survenance
\syʁ.və.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“survenance” is uncommon French (frequency #57,623 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,623
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrivée que l’on n’a pas envisagée, surtout en parlant des enfants qui surviennent après une donation faite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survenance · survenance · French
survenance · rank #57,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,623
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surchargée
Nearest frequency peer: surchargée (-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 « survenance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subséquente
subséquente
42,381 corpus weight
- subséquentes
subséquentes
42,380 corpus weight
- surchargée
surchargée
42,379 corpus weight
- survenance
survenance
42,378 corpus weight
- surélévation
surélévation
42,377 corpus weight
- syntaxiques
syntaxiques
42,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « survenance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survenance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.və.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « survenance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
survenance is uncommon French at frequency #57,623 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.və.nɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
survenance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is survenance, spelled S-U-R-V-E-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Arrivée que l’on n’a pas envisagée, surtout en parlant des enfants qui surviennent après une donation faite.
- 2Arrivée, survenue d’un événement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how survenance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une donation est révoquée de droit par survenance d’enfants.
Le non-respect de ces règles de sécurité est puni de peines d’amende prévues par le Code du travail, indépendamment de la survenance d’un accident du travail.
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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