antisubmarine
adjective
antisubmarine is an adjective meaning “Intended for use against submarines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-U-B-M-A-R-I-N-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antisubmarine mean?
adjective
- 1
Intended for use against submarines.
A depth charge is an antisubmarine weapon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antisubmarine?
Antisubmarine has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antisubmarine
- anti-submarine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antisubmarine?
Antisubmarine appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antisubmarine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense intended for use against submarines:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antissubmarino, antissubmarinos |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.