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supernational

adjective

supernational is an adjective meaning “Spanning nations; having large autonomy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-P-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does supernational mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Spanning nations; having large autonomy.

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

How do you pronounce supernational?

  • 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-supernational.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is supernational?

Supernational appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Where does supernational come from?

From super- + national.

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