subcutaneously
adverb
subcutaneously is an adverb meaning “Under the cutaneous layer of the skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-C-U-T-A-N-E-O-U-S-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does subcutaneously mean?
adverb
- 1
Under the cutaneous layer of the skin.
The injection was given subcutaneously, which should have hurt less than intramuscularly but still hurt a great deal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subcutaneously?
Subcutaneously appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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).
Subcutaneously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense under the cutaneous layer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | subcutaneamente |
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.
Where does subcutaneously come from?
From subcutaneous + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).