superbad
"superbad" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“superbad” is uncommon English (frequency #79,098 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,098
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very bad.
Corpus desk
Index EN-superbad · superbad · English
superbad · rank #79,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,098
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Suomi
Nearest frequency peer: Suomi (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “superbad”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subparagraph
subparagraph
20,909 corpus weight
- suggestively
suggestively
20,907 corpus weight
- Suomi
Suomi
20,904 corpus weight
- superbad
superbad
20,903 corpus weight
- superficial…
superficiality
20,901 corpus weight
- Surtees
Surtees
20,898 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “superbad” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superbad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “superbad” in English
Rare enough to double-check
superbad is uncommon English at frequency #79,098 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for superbad, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + bad. The correct English form is superbad, spelled S-U-P-E-R-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1Very bad.
- 2Fine, excellent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superbad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whose^([sic]) gonna remember a black man unless he was a superstar athlete or a superbad criminal? Black men in America die like flies everyday,^([sic]) and no one cares. Hell, I doubt that I will live to 21.
Brian became my little brother; he was a superbad bluesman.
Etymology
From super- + bad.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).