superb
/sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/
The verdict
“superb” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,183 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,183
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo
Corpus desk
Index PT-superb · superb · Portuguese
superb · rank #98,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,183
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH stiff
Nearest frequency peer: stiff (-11 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “superb”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- stiff
stiff
1,829 corpus weight
- superb
superb
1,818 corpus weight
- tapei
tapei
1,803 corpus weight
- terrina
terrina
1,792 corpus weight
- trombadinha
trombadinha
1,770 corpus weight
- twee
twee
1,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “superb” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superb |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “superb” em português
Rare enough to double-check
superb is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,183 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo".
superb has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is superb, spelled S-U-P-E-R-B.
Definition
- 1sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo
Synonyms
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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