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supersede

/ˌsupɚˈsiːd/verb, noun

supersede is spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-E-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is superceed: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Supersede is a verb meaning “To take the place of”.

How many letters and syllables are in supersede?

Letters9: S-U-P-E-R-S-E-D-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, superceed, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell supersede?

Supersede is spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-E-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for supersede in either form.

supersedethe right spelling2,150 searches a month
superceedc in place of s, d and e swapped220 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is supersede?

Supersede appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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 supersede?

  • UK /ˌsuːpəˈsiːd/
  • US /ˌsupɚˈsiːd/
  • Australia /ˌsʉːpəˈsiːd/

Supersede has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-supersede.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with supersede?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as supersede from its last stressed vowel (/id/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of supersede

  • supersedes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • superseding participle, present
  • superseded participle, past
  • supercede
  • superseed

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

What does supersede mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To take the place of.

    Those older products have been superseded by our new range.

  2. 2

    To displace in favor of itself.

    Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.

noun

  1. 1

    An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.

    Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.

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

Supersede in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanaufheben, ablösen (set aside), ersetzen, den Platz einnehmen von (take the place of), verdrängen (displace in favour of another)
Portuguesesobrepor (set aside), substituir (take the place of), suplantar (displace in favour of another)
Frenchsupplanter (take the place of)
Spanishsubseguir (take the place of)

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 supersede come from?

From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”).

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

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