superbe

/\sy.pɛʁb\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,547

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

superbe is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est très beau ou très bien fait, qu'on peut admirer. Pronounced \sy.pɛʁb\. It ranks #2,547 in French word frequency. Often confused with supers and superbes.

Key facts for superbe
PropertyValue
Headwordsuperbe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sy.pɛʁb\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,547
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of superbe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for superbe is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.pɛʁb\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,547 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for superbe, with forms such as "spuerbe", "ssuperbe", and "sueprbe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "supers", "superbes", "super", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is superbe, spelled S-U-P-E-R-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est très beau ou très bien fait, qu'on peut admirer.
  2. 2
    Qui est imposant, qui a belle apparence, qui présente de la grandeur, de la magnificence, de la somptuosité.
  3. 3
    Qui est orgueilleux, arrogant.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: spuerbe,ssuperbe,sueprbe,supebre,superbbe,supereb,superrbe,supperbe,suprebe,usperbe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for superbe

Misspelling Variants of "superbe"

spuerbe7ssuperbe8sueprbe7supebre7superbbe8supereb7superrbe8supperbe8
Misspelling Variants of "superbe"

Frequency rank: #2,547 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "superbe"?
"superbe" is spelled S-U-P-E-R-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.pɛʁb\.
What does "superbe" mean?
As an adj, "superbe" means: Qui est très beau ou très bien fait, qu'on peut admirer.
What words are commonly confused with "superbe"?
"superbe" is commonly confused with "supers", "superbes", "super". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "superbe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "superbe" is \sy.pɛʁb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "superbe" come from?
"superbe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.