supérieure
\sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“supérieure” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,788
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est située au-dessus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superieure · supérieure · French
supérieure · rank #1,788 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,788
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sois
Nearest frequency peer: sois (-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 « supérieure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rare
rare
98,216 corpus weight
- soins
soins
98,215 corpus weight
- sois
sois
98,214 corpus weight
- supérieure
supérieure
98,213 corpus weight
- séance
séance
98,212 corpus weight
- Thomas
Thomas
98,210 corpus weight
What this shows « supérieure » 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 | supérieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « supérieure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around supérieure (IPA \sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,788 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for supérieure, with forms such as "spuérieure", "ssupérieure", and "superieure". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "supérieurs", "supérieures", "supérieur", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is supérieure, spelled S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est située au-dessus.
- 2Celle qui a autorité sur un autre, qui a le droit de commander à un autre.
- 3Celle qui dirige, qui gouverne un monastère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how supérieure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La supérieure des béguines, […], ne put suivre ses compagnes : le lendemain, on la trouvait dans la cave du béguinage, asphyxiée, les bras en croix.
Nous prendrons tout le temps qu’il faut pour mener à bien cet exercice de réflexion en harmonie avec le milieu », a déclaré Sœur Monique Gervais, supérieure générale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuérieure
- ssupérieure
- superieure
- suppérieure
- supréieure
- supéireure
- supéreiure
- supérierue
- supérieuer
- supérieurre
- supériuere
- supérrieure
- suéprieure
- uspérieure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of supérieure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "supérieure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).