superstar
\sy.pɛʁ.staʁ\
The verdict
“superstar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,694
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vedette incontestée et adulée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superstar · superstar · French
superstar · rank #19,694 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,694
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superficiel
Nearest frequency peer: superficiel (-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 « superstar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- strike
strike
80,310 corpus weight
- Sully
Sully
80,309 corpus weight
- superficiel
superficiel
80,308 corpus weight
- superstar
superstar
80,307 corpus weight
- sénatrice
sénatrice
80,306 corpus weight
- tapez
tapez
80,305 corpus weight
What this shows « superstar » 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 | superstar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.staʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « superstar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around superstar (IPA \sy.pɛʁ.staʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,694 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vedette incontestée et adulée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for superstar, with forms such as "spuerstar", "ssuperstar", and "sueprstar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "superstars", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is superstar, spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Vedette incontestée et adulée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superstar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Panafieu superstar au meeting de l’UMP.
ManU avait officialisé son départ le 1ᵉʳ juin, mettant un point final à un passage mitigé chez les Red Devils où il était arrivé en superstar en 2016 au terme d’un contrat astronomique de quelque 105 millions d’euros ficelé par son agent Mino Raiola, décédé en avril.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuerstar
- ssuperstar
- sueprstar
- superrstar
- supersatr
- supersstar
- superstarr
- superstra
- supersttar
- supertsar
- supesrtar
- supperstar
- suprestar
- usperstar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of superstar - 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 "superstar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).