6th Grade spelling
6th Grade Words With the Prefix Super
Words with the prefix super, meaning above or beyond: supervisor, supermarket, supernatural. Play hangman or print a worksheet with answers.
Read the spelling list
The pattern: Super means above or beyond. Every word starts with the prefix and is pronounced with it.
Super is a Latin prefix meaning above, over or beyond. A supervisor oversees work, a supernatural event lies beyond nature, and something superhuman goes past ordinary human limits. The pronunciation always starts with the soo sound, which makes the spelling of the front of the word easy to hear. What the ear does not tell you is what follows: super is nearly always attached to a whole word or a familiar root, so the question is mainly where the join falls and what the ending is.
The list has twenty words, including superintendent, supervisor, supervision, supernatural, supermarket, superficial, superpower, supersonic, superstition and supernova. Some are common nouns, some are adjectives, and a few are long enough to be good spelling challenges. Sixth graders meet them in science (supernova, supersonic), civics (superintendent) and everyday reading.
19 entries. Our solver needed 0.6 wrong guesses on average: 19 easy, 0 medium and 0 hard. The toughest is supervisor (1 misses), the quickest superintendent (0).
- superintendent Easy · 0
- supervisor Easy · 1
- supervision Easy · 1
- supernatural Easy · 1
- supermarket Easy · 1
- superficial Easy · 1
- supervise Easy · 1
- supervisory Easy · 0
- superpower Easy · 1
- superstition Easy · 0
- supersonic Easy · 0
- superstitious Easy · 0
- supernova Easy · 1
- superhuman Easy · 0
- superfluous Easy · 1
- superimposed Easy · 1
- superficially Easy · 0
- superstructure Easy · 1
- supersede Easy · 1
Words worth a closer look
- superintendentSuper plus intendent. Fourteen letters with two ent syllables, and no a anywhere near the end.
- supervisorSuper plus visor, from a Latin word for see: to look over.
- supermarketTwo whole words joined. Students sometimes put a space or hyphen between them.
- supernaturalSuper plus natural: above nature. Notice the er in super.
- superstitionSuper plus stition. Students often write superstision, using sion for tion.
Teaching it
Ask students to separate super and the base. Many bases are words on their own: market, power, human, natural. Others, like intendent, are word parts, and for those it is better to chunk by syllable: su-per-in-ten-dent. The usual spelling error is the ending of superintendent, which has ent twice and no a, so students write superintendant.
In hangman, give the word's length and the first five letters (super) and ask players to guess the rest. Long words like superstructure get solved in a few turns. Print the worksheet, and ask students to put each word on a line from less than normal to more than normal and explain where the prefix sits.
Print a 6th Grade Words With the Prefix Super worksheet
Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.
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