Which to use
“surpassé” and “surpasser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,172
- “surpassé” frequency rank
- #21,782
- “surpasser” frequency rank
- 57954
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | surpassé | surpasser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de surpasser. | Excéder ; être plus haut, plus élevé ou plus gros. |
Same sound, different letters: surpassé vs surpasser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. surpassé and surpasser are pronounced identically (\syʁ.pa.se\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57954, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
surpassé is recorded at frequency rank #36,172, classified as averb, pronounced \syʁ.pa.se\. surpasser is at rank #21,782, tagged as averb, pronounced \syʁ.pa.se\.
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 57954, this pair ranks #111,923 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of surpassé vs surpasser
Shared letters: aprsu. Private to "surpassé": é. Private to "surpasser": e.
"surpassé" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "surpasser" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- surpasser ← srupasser · ssurpasser · suprasser · surapsser · surpaser · surpasesr · surpasserr · surpassre