survols

\syʁ.vɔl\

/\syʁ.vɔl\/ noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for survols
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvols
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ.vɔl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#77,067
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « survols » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.survolstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « surveillons » (#77,066), « surdosage » (#77,065), « sweatshirt » (#77,069). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « survols » est au #77,067. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de survol.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "survols"?
"survols" is spelled S-U-R-V-O-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vɔl\.
What does "survols" mean?
As a noun, "survols" means: Pluriel de survol.
How do you pronounce "survols"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survols" is \syʁ.vɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survols" come from?
"survols" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list