super-héros
\sy.pɛʁ e.ʁo\
The verdict
“super-héros” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage de fiction doté de super-pouvoirs, et les utilisant pour le bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-super-heros · super-héros · French
super-héros · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | super-héros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ e.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « super-héros » en français
Rare enough to double-check
super-héros is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ e.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage de fiction doté de super-pouvoirs, et les utilisant pour le bien.".
super-héros has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is super-héros, spelled S-U-P-E-R---H-É-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1Personnage de fiction doté de super-pouvoirs, et les utilisant pour le bien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how super-héros appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Impossible ! Pourquoi ? — Parce que tu ne connais pas la loi de la droite vers la gauche ! — La loi de la droite vers la gauche ? — Les super-héros japonais ont hérité du théâtre classique japonais. La plupart d’entre eux lancent leurs super-attaques de la droite en se déplaçant vers la gauche ! »
« Kéké » ne revêtira donc pas sa cape de super-héros pour sauver une nouvelle fois une équipe de France en détresse.
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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.