superlatif
\sy.pɛʁ.la.tif\
The verdict
“superlatif” is uncommon French (frequency #77,965 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,965
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui exprime la qualité, bonne ou mauvaise, portée au plus haut degré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superlatif · superlatif · French
superlatif · rank #77,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH summertime
Nearest frequency peer: summertime (-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 « superlatif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suaves
suaves
22,041 corpus weight
- subsistaient
subsistaient
22,040 corpus weight
- summertime
summertime
22,037 corpus weight
- superlatif
superlatif
22,036 corpus weight
- surpassée
surpassée
22,033 corpus weight
- sursauta
sursauta
22,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « superlatif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superlatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.la.tif\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « superlatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
superlatif is uncommon French at frequency #77,965 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.la.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for superlatif, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is superlatif, spelled S-U-P-E-R-L-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui exprime la qualité, bonne ou mauvaise, portée au plus haut degré.
- 2Au degré supérieur, avec une nuance d’ironie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superlatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adjectif, adverbe superlatif.
Plusieurs langues ont des terminaisons superlatives.
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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