survols
\syʁ.vɔl\
The verdict
“survols” is uncommon French (frequency #77,067 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,067
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de survol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survols · survols · French
survols · rank #77,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surveillons
Nearest frequency peer: surveillons (-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 « survols »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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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
- symptomatol…
symptomatologie
22,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « survols » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survols |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syʁ.vɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « survols » en français
Rare enough to double-check
survols is uncommon French at frequency #77,067 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syʁ.vɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de survol.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for survols, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 survols, spelled S-U-R-V-O-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de survol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how survols appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est donc la tête bien pleine que j’effectuai mon paseo maritime et aéré, sous les survols des mouettes et des goélands, pendant qu’au ras des flots une escadrille de cormorans rejouait la bataille du Pacifique.
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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