supercalculateur
\sy.pɛʁ.kal.ky.la.tœʁ\
The verdict
“supercalculateur” is uncommon French (frequency #75,269 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,269
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calculateur à très forte capacité et conçu pour réaliser des calculs complexes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-supercalculateur · supercalculateur · French
supercalculateur · rank #75,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,269
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sultane
Nearest frequency peer: sultane (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « supercalculateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suggérez
suggérez
24,735 corpus weight
- sujétion
sujétion
24,734 corpus weight
- sultane
sultane
24,733 corpus weight
- supercalcul…
supercalculateur
24,732 corpus weight
- supportrice
supportrice
24,731 corpus weight
- surreprésen…
surreprésentés
24,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « supercalculateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supercalculateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.kal.ky.la.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #75,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « supercalculateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
supercalculateur is uncommon French at frequency #75,269 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.kal.ky.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Calculateur à très forte capacité et conçu pour réaliser des calculs complexes.".
supercalculateur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is supercalculateur, spelled S-U-P-E-R-C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Calculateur à très forte capacité et conçu pour réaliser des calculs complexes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how supercalculateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vient ensuite la Chine qui, avec 32 points, a fait des progrès dans plusieurs domaines et comptait, l'an passé, 214 des 500 plus puissants supercalculateurs du monde, soit plus que n'importe quel autre pays – 113 pour les États-Unis et 91 pour l'Union européenne (UE).
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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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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