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supervolcano

noun

supervolcano is spelled S-U-P-E-R-V-O-L-C-A-N-O: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, supervolcano means “A powerful volcano, often having an explosive or cataclysmic eruption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of supervolcano is supervolcanoes or supervolcanos.

How many letters and syllables are in supervolcano?

Letters12: S-U-P-E-R-V-O-L-C-A-N-O
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is supervolcano?

Supervolcano appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 supervolcano?

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

Forms of supervolcano

  • supervolcanoes plural
  • supervolcanos plural

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

What does supervolcano mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A powerful volcano, often having an explosive or cataclysmic eruption.

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

Supervolcano in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
GermanSupervulkan

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 supervolcano come from?

From super- + volcano.

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

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