Puissance supérieure
\pɥi.sɑ̃s sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“Puissance supérieure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à une entité plus ou moins personnelle qu'on considère comme plus puissante que les hommes sans vouloir l'appeler Dieu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Puissance supérieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɥi.sɑ̃s sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Puissance supérieure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Puissance supérieure is 20 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɥi.sɑ̃s sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom donné à une entité plus ou moins personnelle qu'on considère comme plus puissante que les hommes sans vouloir l'appeler Dieu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Puissance supérieure in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Puissance supérieure, spelled P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à une entité plus ou moins personnelle qu'on considère comme plus puissante que les hommes sans vouloir l'appeler Dieu.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Puissance supérieure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-E - 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.