supercell
"supercell" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“supercell” is uncommon English (frequency #50,257 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,257
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very s...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supercell |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “supercell” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
supercell is uncommon English at frequency #50,257 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for supercell, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + cell. The correct English form is supercell, spelled S-U-P-E-R-C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
- 2A repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells.
Etymology
From super- + cell.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “supercell”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-E-R-C-E-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.