survêt

\syʁ.vɛt\

/\syʁ.vɛt\/ noun

The verdict

“survêt” is uncommon French (frequency #82,501 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,501
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Survêtement, tenue sportive à la mode chez les jeunes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-survet · survêt · French

survêt · rank #82,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,501
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH surge

Nearest frequency peer: surge (-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 « survêt »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « survêt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for survêt
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvêt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ.vɛt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#82,501
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « survêt » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).survêttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « surge » (#82,500), « suzerains » (#82,502), « supranational » (#82,499). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « survêt » est au #82,501. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

survêt is uncommon French at frequency #82,501 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Survêtement, tenue sportive à la mode chez les jeunes.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for survêt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is survêt, spelled S-U-R-V-Ê-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Survêtement, tenue sportive à la mode chez les jeunes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quand ils voient Canto tous ceux de la foule marseillaise enfouissent la clameur du stade sous leur casquette dans les poches de leur survêt.
  2. Après l’échauffement, quand je revenais dans les tribunes à ses côtés pour enfiler mes pointes, je savais qu’il allait me dire : « Enlève pas ton survêt trop tôt ! »

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "survêt"?
"survêt" is spelled S-U-R-V-Ê-T. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vɛt\.
What does "survêt" mean?
As a noun, "survêt" means: Survêtement, tenue sportive à la mode chez les jeunes.
How do you pronounce "survêt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survêt" is \syʁ.vɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survêt" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "survêt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list