Which to use
“surmonter” and “surmontés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,934
- “surmonter” frequency rank
- #39,564
- “surmontés” frequency rank
- 48498
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | surmonter | surmontés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Monter au-dessus. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de surmonter. |
Same sound, different letters: surmonter vs surmontés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: surmonter vs surmontés
This is the hard kind. surmonter and surmontés are pronounced identically (\syʁ.mɔ̃.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48498, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
surmonter is recorded at frequency rank #8,934, classified as averb, pronounced \syʁ.mɔ̃.te\. surmontés is at rank #39,564, tagged as averb, pronounced \syʁ.mɔ̃.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 48498, this pair ranks #178,415 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of surmonter vs surmontés
Shared letters: mnorstu. Private to "surmonter": e. Private to "surmontés": é.
"surmonter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC · "surmontés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- surmonter ← srumonter · ssurmonter · sumronter · surmmonter · surmnoter · surmonetr · surmonnter · surmonterr
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "surmonter" for "surmontés" ever safe?
Which is more common, "surmonter" or "surmontés"?
What to do next
"surmonter" and "surmontés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "surmonter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "surmontés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #178,415 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "surmonter" and "surmontés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "surmontées vs surmontés". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #178,415 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.