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superheavy

adjective, noun

superheavy is spelled S-U-P-E-R-H-E-A-V-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, superheavy means “Much heavier than usual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in superheavy?

Letters10: S-U-P-E-R-H-E-A-V-Y
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th 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 superheavy?

Superheavy appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).

How do you pronounce superheavy?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-superheavy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of superheavy

  • superheavies plural

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

What does superheavy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Much heavier than usual.

    Near-synonym: superheavyweight

  2. 2

    Describing a transuranic element with an extremely high atomic number; typically taken to mean beyond lawrencium (element 103, the last actinide).

  3. 3

    stressed more than is usual

noun

  1. 1

    A superheavy thing.

    Near-synonym: superheavyweight

  2. 2

    A superheavy element.

  3. 3

    informalA superheavy tank or artillery piece.

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

Where does superheavy come from?

From super- + heavy.

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

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