superb

//sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb// adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,183

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

superb is anPortugueseadj. It means: sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo Pronounced /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/.

Key facts for superb
PropertyValue
Headwordsuperb
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/
Letters6
Frequency rank#98,183
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of superb in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for superb is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/. Corpus data places it at rank #98,183 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for superb in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is superb, spelled S-U-P-E-R-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #98,183 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "superb"?
"superb" is spelled S-U-P-E-R-B. The IPA pronunciation is /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/.
What does "superb" mean?
As an adj, "superb" means: sublime; excelente; de alta qualidade; soberbo
How do you pronounce "superb"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "superb" is /sjuː'pɜːb/, /suː'pɜːb/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.