Supremes
"supremes" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Supremes” is uncommon English (frequency #56,473 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,473
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The current members, as a group, of the Supreme Court of the United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Supremes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Supremes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Supremes is uncommon English at frequency #56,473 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The current members, as a group, of the Supreme Court of the United States.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Supremes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Supreme Court of the United States, by shortening, punning reference to The Supremes, a pop-music singing group. The correct English form is Supremes, spelled S-U-P-R-E-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1The current members, as a group, of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Etymology
From Supreme Court of the United States, by shortening, punning reference to The Supremes, a pop-music singing group.
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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Using “Supremes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-R-E-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.