superflus
\sy.pɛʁ.fly\
The verdict
“superflus” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de superflu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superflus · superflus · French
superflus · rank #33,907 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,907
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subconscient
Nearest frequency peer: subconscient (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « superflus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stabilisée
stabilisée
66,097 corpus weight
- statutaire
statutaire
66,096 corpus weight
- subconscient
subconscient
66,095 corpus weight
- superflus
superflus
66,094 corpus weight
- surnaturels
surnaturels
66,093 corpus weight
- Sylvester
Sylvester
66,092 corpus weight
What this shows « superflus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superflus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.fly\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « superflus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around superflus (IPA \sy.pɛʁ.fly\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,907 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de superflu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for superflus, with forms such as "spuerflus", "ssuperflus", and "sueprflus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "superflu", "superflue", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is superflus, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de superflu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how superflus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car la mode, c’est aussi les millions de tonnes de crèmes, poudres, laits, lotions, maquillages, démaquillants, prémaquillants, produits à se peindre, à se bronzer, à ôter la peinture, à s’oindre, à s’enduire, à se désenduire, à se pommader, à se friser, à s’onduler, à se défriser, à nourrir les cheveux, les laver, les traiter, les dépelliculer, les blond…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuerflus
- ssuperflus
- sueprflus
- supefrlus
- superfflus
- superfllus
- superflsu
- superfluss
- superfuls
- superlfus
- superrflus
- supperflus
- supreflus
- usperflus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of superflus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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