Superfund
"superfund" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Superfund” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,684
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large amount of money designated for environmental cleanup by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Superfund |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Superfund” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Superfund, anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,684 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A large amount of money designated for environmental cleanup by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Superfund, with forms such as "spuerfund", "ssuperfund", and "sueprfund". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + fund. The correct English form is Superfund, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1A large amount of money designated for environmental cleanup by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
Etymology
From super- + fund.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuerfund
- ssuperfund
- sueprfund
- supefrund
- superffund
- superfnud
- superfudn
- superfundd
- superfunnd
- superrfund
- superufnd
- supperfund
- suprefund
- usperfund
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Superfund - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “Superfund”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-E-R-F-U-N-D - 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.