subfolder
noun
subfolder is a noun meaning “A folder within another folder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-F-O-L-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subfolder is subfolders.
What does subfolder mean?
noun
- 1
A folder within another folder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce subfolder?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-subfolder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of subfolder
- subfolders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subfolder?
Subfolder appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).
Subfolder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense folder within another folder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sous-répertoire |
| German | Unterordner |
| Portuguese | subpasta, subdiretório |
| Spanish | subcarpeta |
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 subfolder come from?
From sub- + folder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).