supercritique
\sy.pɛʁ.kʁi.tik\
The verdict
“supercritique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a dépassé son point critique, qui a été chauffé au-dessus de sa température critique et comprimé au-delà de sa pression critique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-supercritique · supercritique · French
supercritique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | supercritique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.kʁi.tik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
supercritique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.kʁi.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a dépassé son point critique, qui a été chauffé au-dessus de sa température critique et comprimé au-delà de sa pression critique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for supercritique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is supercritique, spelled S-U-P-E-R-C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a dépassé son point critique, qui a été chauffé au-dessus de sa température critique et comprimé au-delà de sa pression critique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how supercritique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le CO₂ supercritique est un agent d'extraction sélectif pour la caféine, et son utilisation pour la décaféination du café et du thé a été la première application industrielle d'un fluide supercritique, suivie de l'extraction du houblon dans l'industrie de la bière.
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.