supersymmetry
"supersymmetry" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“supersymmetry” is uncommon English (frequency #78,170 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,170
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supersymmetry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #78,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “supersymmetry” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
supersymmetry is uncommon English at frequency #78,170 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.".
supersymmetry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess a… The correct English form is supersymmetry, spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Etymology
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-E-R-S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.