superorganism
noun
superorganism is a noun meaning “A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-P-E-R-O-R-G-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of superorganism is superorganisms.
What does superorganism mean?
noun
- 1
A social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce superorganism?
- 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-superorganism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of superorganism
- superorganisms plural
- super organism
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is superorganism?
Superorganism appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Superorganism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense social colony:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | superorganisme |
| German | Superorganismus |
| Spanish | superorganismo |
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.