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superfortress

noun

superfortress is spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-O-R-T-R-E-S-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, superfortress means “A massive and heavily protected fortress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of superfortress is superfortresses.

How many letters and syllables are in superfortress?

Letters13: S-U-P-E-R-F-O-R-T-R-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is superfortress?

Superfortress appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of superfortress

  • superfortresses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does superfortress mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A massive and heavily protected fortress.

  2. 2

    A bomber aeroplane that is larger than and superior to by being technically advanced compared to the Boeing B-17 "flying fortress", specifically the Boeing B-29 long-range heavy bomber aeroplane that was developed during the early 1940s.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does superfortress come from?

From super- + fortress.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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