supercross
"supercross" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“supercross” is uncommon English (frequency #88,898 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,898
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sport in which high-performance off-road motorcycles are raced on an artificially made dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supercross |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “supercross” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
supercross is uncommon English at frequency #88,898 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sport in which high-performance off-road motorcycles are raced on an artificially made dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for supercross in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + -cross. The correct English form is supercross, spelled S-U-P-E-R-C-R-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1A sport in which high-performance off-road motorcycles are raced on an artificially made dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles.
Etymology
From super- + -cross.
Synonyms
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 “supercross”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-E-R-C-R-O-S-S - 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.