super
French, verb/sy.pɛʁ/
super is spelled S-U-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears 186 times per million words in written French, the 435th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Super is a French verb meaning “to suck, to sip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aspirer, sucer (quelque chose)”.
What does super mean in English?
adjective
- 1
superb, great
adverb
- 1
informalextremely, very (as an intensifier)
Il est super beau
interjection
- 1
great, fantastic
verb
- 1
to suck, to sip
prefix
- 1
super-, over-
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Supercarburant. 2. Superphosphate : Engrais phosphaté, à base de phosphate monocalcique. 3. Supermarché.
adjective: 1. Très bien, épatant.
adverb: 1. Très ; extrêmement.
interjection: 1. Pour marquer une bonne nouvelle. 2. Pour marquer une mauvaise nouvelle.
verb: 1. Aspirer, sucer (quelque chose). 2. Se dit d'une pompe qui aspire aussi l’étoupe une fois toute l’eau de la cale étant vidée. 3. Se dit d’une voie d'eau qui se bouche et aussi d’un cordage qui se coince dans une poulie
prefix: 1. Se met devant un certain nombre de mots pour indiquer un état, une situation, un degré supérieur. 2. Sur-, dessus. 3. Préfixe adjectival superlatif.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of super
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- supant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- supé participle past
- supe first-person indicative present
- supes indicative present second-person
- supons first-person indicative plural
- supez indicative plural present
- supent indicative plural present
- supais first-person imperfect indicative
- supait imperfect indicative singular
- supions first-person imperfect indicative
- supiez imperfect indicative plural
- supaient imperfect indicative plural
- supai first-person historic indicative
- supas historic indicative past
- supa historic indicative past
- supâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce super?
- /sy.pɛʁ/
- /sy.pe/
- \sy.pɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to super
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is super in French?
super appears 186 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).