supérieur
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,349
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
supérieur is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est situé au-dessus. Pronounced \sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. It ranks #1,349 in French word frequency. Often confused with supérieure and supérieurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supérieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for supérieur is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,349 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for supérieur, with forms such as "spuérieur", "ssupérieur", and "superieur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "supérieure", "supérieurs", "supérieures", 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 supérieur, spelled S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé au-dessus.
- 2Qualifiait les régions ou les pays les plus rapprochés de la source du fleuve ou de la rivière qui les traverse.
- 3Qui est au-dessus d’un autre, qui l’emporte sur les autres pour la condition, la dignité, le mérite, l’autorité, les forces, etc.
- 4Qui est classé ou répertorié au dessus.
- 5Plus grand ou égal. Le symbole : ≥ ou ⩾. Note d’usage : En mathématiques ce mot comprend l’égalité, mais ce n’est pas le cas du langage courant et de l’informatique. Pour éviter la confusion possible, on peut dire supérieur ou égal.
- 6Qui affecte la fierté et le dédain pour mieux marquer la distance entre soi et les autres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: spuérieur,ssupérieur,superieur,suppérieur,supréieur,supéireur,supéreiur,supérieru,supérieurr,supériuer,supérrieur,suéprieur,uspérieur
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for supérieur
Misspelling Variants of "supérieur"
Frequency rank: #1,349 in French
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