survolté
\syʁ.vɔl.te\
The verdict
“survolté” is uncommon French (frequency #71,942 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,942
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fonctionne sous une tension supérieure à sa tension nominale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survolte · survolté · French
survolté · rank #71,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,942
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surprenait
Nearest frequency peer: surprenait (-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 « survolté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suppôt
suppôt
28,062 corpus weight
- surent
surent
28,061 corpus weight
- surprenait
surprenait
28,060 corpus weight
- survolté
survolté
28,059 corpus weight
- suspendait
suspendait
28,058 corpus weight
- suter
suter
28,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « survolté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survolté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \syʁ.vɔl.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « survolté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
survolté is uncommon French at frequency #71,942 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \syʁ.vɔl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for survolté, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is survolté, spelled S-U-R-V-O-L-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui fonctionne sous une tension supérieure à sa tension nominale.
- 2Qui est dans un état d'excitation intense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how survolté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une lampe survoltée fournit une lumière plus intense et plus blanche, mais sa durée est considérablement réduite.
Des chaînes de jeunes gens survoltés se passent les pavés et les amoncellent entre les voitures renversées.
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.
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