subcontract
"subcontract" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subcontract” is uncommon English (frequency #65,539 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,539
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subcontract · subcontract · English
subcontract · rank #65,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,539
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH succ
Nearest frequency peer: succ (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “subcontract”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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stalag
34,468 corpus weight
- storytime
storytime
34,466 corpus weight
- strudel
strudel
34,464 corpus weight
- subcontract
subcontract
34,462 corpus weight
- succ
succ
34,461 corpus weight
- superoxide
superoxide
34,456 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “subcontract” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subcontract |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “subcontract” in English
Rare enough to double-check
subcontract is uncommon English at frequency #65,539 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.".
subcontract has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sub- + contract. The correct English form is subcontract, spelled S-U-B-C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T.
Definition
- 1To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
Etymology
From sub- + contract.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).