survey

\ˈsɝ.veɪ\

/\ˈsɝ.veɪ\/ noun

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The verdict

“survey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,325
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sondage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-survey · survey · French

survey · rank #34,325 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,325
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH supérette

Nearest frequency peer: supérette (-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 « survey »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « survey » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

survey vs survie
67% similar
survey vs survit
67% similar
survey vs survol
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for survey
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvey
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈsɝ.veɪ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#34,325
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « survey »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).surveyse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « supérette » (#34,324), « tantinet » (#34,326), « supposent » (#34,323). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « survey » est au #34,325. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around survey (IPA \ˈsɝ.veɪ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,325 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for survey, with forms such as "sruvey", "ssurvey", and "surevy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "survie", "survit", "survol", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is survey, spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sondage.
  2. 2
    Étude.
  3. 3
    Arpentage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. We are taking a survey on what brands of soap people are buying.
  2. She wrote a survey article on the literature concerning butterflies of South America.

Synonyms

poll

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sruvey
  • ssurvey
  • surevy
  • surrvey
  • surveyy
  • survvey
  • survye
  • suvrey
  • usrvey

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of survey - 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.

sruvey2ssurvey1surevy2surrvey1surveyy1survvey1survye2suvrey2
Edit distance from "survey"

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 "survey"?
"survey" is spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈsɝ.veɪ\.
What does "survey" mean?
As a noun, "survey" means: Sondage.
What words are commonly confused with "survey"?
"survey" is commonly confused with "survie", "survit", "survol". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "survey"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survey" is \ˈsɝ.veɪ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survey" come from?
"survey" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Sardou#34,305valves#34,351virile#34,357riders#34,286

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

titrage9 variantsTouareg9 variantsveillera9 variantsroulotte9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list