superpositions
\sy.pɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“superpositions” is uncommon French (frequency #70,245 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,245
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de superposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superpositions · superpositions · French
superpositions · rank #70,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,245
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superposant
Nearest frequency peer: superposant (-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 « superpositions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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29,759 corpus weight
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29,758 corpus weight
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29,757 corpus weight
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29,756 corpus weight
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29,755 corpus weight
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29,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « superpositions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superpositions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #70,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « superpositions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
superpositions is uncommon French at frequency #70,245 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de superposition.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for superpositions, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is superpositions, spelled S-U-P-E-R-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de superposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how superpositions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le but est de limiter, autant que possible, les superpositions osseuses (mandibule et basi-occiput). Pour ce faire, on cherche à tangentialiser le rayon incident avec la ligne unissant le bord inférieur des incisives supérieures et la table externe du basi-occiput.
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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