superorder
noun
superorder is a noun meaning “A taxonomic category below subclass and above order” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-P-E-R-O-R-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of superorder is superorders.
What does superorder mean?
noun
- 1
A taxonomic category below subclass and above order.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce superorder?
- 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-superorder.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of superorder
- superorders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is superorder?
Superorder appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).
Superorder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense taxonomic category:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | superordre |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does superorder come from?
From super- + order.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).