supercomputing
"supercomputing" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“supercomputing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,546 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,546
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The design and use of supercomputers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-supercomputing · supercomputing · English
supercomputing · rank #74,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,546
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH succinate
Nearest frequency peer: succinate (-2 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 “supercomputing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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strikeforce
25,460 corpus weight
- subscript
subscript
25,459 corpus weight
- succinate
succinate
25,457 corpus weight
- supercomput…
supercomputing
25,455 corpus weight
- Surbiton
Surbiton
25,453 corpus weight
- surmount
surmount
25,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “supercomputing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supercomputing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #74,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “supercomputing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
supercomputing is uncommon English at frequency #74,546 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The design and use of supercomputers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for supercomputing, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + computing. The correct English form is supercomputing, spelled S-U-P-E-R-C-O-M-P-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The design and use of supercomputers.
Etymology
From super- + computing.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).