superpuissance
\sy.pɛʁ.pɥi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“superpuissance” is uncommon French (frequency #58,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État dominant à l’échelle mondiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superpuissance · superpuissance · French
superpuissance · rank #58,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,964
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Suissesse
Nearest frequency peer: Suissesse (-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 « superpuissance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- succincteme…
succinctement
41,040 corpus weight
- suchet
suchet
41,039 corpus weight
- Suissesse
Suissesse
41,038 corpus weight
- superpuissa…
superpuissance
41,037 corpus weight
- supplement
supplement
41,036 corpus weight
- surplombent
surplombent
41,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « superpuissance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superpuissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.pɥi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #58,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « superpuissance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
superpuissance is uncommon French at frequency #58,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.pɥi.sɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État dominant à l’échelle mondiale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for superpuissance in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 superpuissance, spelled S-U-P-E-R-P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1État dominant à l’échelle mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superpuissance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les premières nations ayant été élevées au rang de superpuissance furent les États-Unis et l’Union soviétique, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
La superpuissance mondiale espère produire un tiers de son électricité à partir d'énergies renouvelables d'ici à 2025.
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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