subfield
noun
subfield is a noun meaning “A smaller, more specialized area of study or occupation within a larger one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-F-I-E-L-D, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subfield is subfields.
What does subfield mean?
noun
- 1
A smaller, more specialized area of study or occupation within a larger one
- 2
A subring of a field, containing the multiplicative identity and closed under inversion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce subfield?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-subfield.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of subfield
- subfields plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subfield?
Subfield appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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).
Subfield in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Teilgebiet , Unterkörper, Teilkörper |
| Portuguese | subárea, subcampo |
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 subfield come from?
From sub- + field.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).