superliminary
"superliminary" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“superliminary” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The lintel across the top of a doorway.
Corpus desk
Index EN-superliminary · superliminary · English
superliminary · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superliminary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “superliminary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
superliminary is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The lintel across the top of a doorway.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for superliminary, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is superliminary, spelled S-U-P-E-R-L-I-M-I-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1The lintel across the top of a doorway.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superliminary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Note 88) Superliminary. Title: Literally, above the threshhold, suggesting the lintel over the passageway between the church porch and the church proper; here, figuratively, the poem that is the passage from "The Church Porch" to "The Church."
I am sure this doore was besprinkled with blood, on all sides, before,and behind; his head, and his armes, as the superliminary, both sides of him, as the side-posts. and his feete as the threshold.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.