superintendant
\sy.pɛ.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“superintendant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,130 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,130
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intendant en chef.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superintendant · superintendant · French
superintendant · rank #88,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,130
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sundgau
Nearest frequency peer: Sundgau (-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 « superintendant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subdivisés
subdivisés
11,874 corpus weight
- sues
sues
11,873 corpus weight
- Sundgau
Sundgau
11,872 corpus weight
- superintend…
superintendant
11,871 corpus weight
- supériorités
supériorités
11,870 corpus weight
- surat
surat
11,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « superintendant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superintendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛ.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #88,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « superintendant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
superintendant is uncommon French at frequency #88,130 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɛ.ʁɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for superintendant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 superintendant, spelled S-U-P-E-R-I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Intendant en chef.
- 2Grade de la police britannique, supérieur à celui d’inspecteur-chef et à inférieur celui de superintendant en chef. Il correspond en France au commissaire de police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superintendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ce que nos officiers ont fait, c'est pour assurer la sécurité du public et des citoyens de Toronto, qui ont aussi des droits, a dit le superintendant Jeff McGuire, de la Police de Toronto.
Le superintendant de l'unité des crimes économiques de la GRC, Stéphane Bonin, a déclaré que le jugement montrait que personne n'était au-dessus de la loi, pas même les politiciens.
Synonyms
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); 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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