supervssuppWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: super is a adjective, supp is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“super” is an adjective and “supp” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#889
“super” frequency rank
#33,869
“supp” frequency rank
34758
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature super supp
Definition Of excellent quality, superfine. A support (in a competitive video game, a player or character who supports or heals their team's players rather than directly engaging enemies).

Letter map: super vs supp

Shared letters muted; letters that set super and supp apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
super
4 ch
supp

Grammar separator: super vs supp

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: super is anadjective and suppanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34758, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

super is recorded at frequency rank #889, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈs(j)uː.pə/. supp is at rank #33,869, tagged as anoun.

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 34758, this pair ranks #317,979 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of super vs supp

Shared letters: psu. Private to "super": er. Private to "supp": -.

"super" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "supp" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • superspuer · ssuper · suepr · superr · supre · usper
  • suppspup · ssupp · uspp

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "super" for "supp" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "super" is an adjective and "supp" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "super" vs "supp" - which ranks higher?
"super" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #889 in our English list, against #33,869 for "supp". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "super" and "supp". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "super" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supp" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #317,979 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "super" and "supp" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supp vs sura". 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 #317,979 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list