Home › Words › S › superhetsuperhet/ˌsuːpəˈhɛt/superhet means superheterodyne receiver.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, superhet ranks #2,614 of 42,762 for Qualifying.superhet is pronounced /ˌsuːpəˈhɛt/.EtymologyAbbreviation of superheterodyne receiver.nounSuperheterodyne receiver.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.superheterodyne 74% match — Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique. vs superhet →autoheterodyne 56% match — autodyne vs superhet →helitron 54% match — A tunable form of microwave oscillator. vs superhet →syntonizer 53% match — That which syntonizes. vs superhet →coherer 53% match — A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers. vs superhet →fmer 49% match — An FM radio enthusiast. vs superhet →heterostructure 48% match — Any structure made from a heterojunction. vs superhet →neutrodyne 47% match — A kind of tuned-radio-frequency (TRF) receiver in which the instability-causing interelectrode capacitance of the triode RF tubes is cancelled out to prevent parasitic oscillations that cause unwanted noise. vs superhet →