superfamily
"superfamily" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“superfamily” is uncommon English (frequency #66,324 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,324
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions).
Corpus desk
Index EN-superfamily · superfamily · English
superfamily · rank #66,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,324
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sunbae
Nearest frequency peer: sunbae (-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 “superfamily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subgenus
subgenus
33,680 corpus weight
- Subic
Subic
33,679 corpus weight
- sunbae
sunbae
33,678 corpus weight
- superfamily
superfamily
33,677 corpus weight
- supermax
supermax
33,676 corpus weight
- swaggering
swaggering
33,675 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “superfamily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superfamily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “superfamily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
superfamily is uncommon English at frequency #66,324 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for superfamily, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + family. The correct English form is superfamily, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-A-M-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions).
- 2A large group of related proteins or other molecules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superfamily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is no reason to deny a natural sequence or to split off genera only to have to attempt later to re-insert them into the whole by means of subordos and superfamilies.
The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations.
Etymology
From super- + family.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).