subgenre
"subgenre" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subgenre” is uncommon English (frequency #57,105 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,105
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of several categories within a particular genre.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subgenre · subgenre · English
subgenre · rank #57,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,105
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Strasser
Nearest frequency peer: Strasser (-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 “subgenre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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stirrup
42,900 corpus weight
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42,899 corpus weight
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42,898 corpus weight
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Strasser
42,897 corpus weight
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subgenre
42,896 corpus weight
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sultanate
42,893 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “subgenre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subgenre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “subgenre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
subgenre is uncommon English at frequency #57,105 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One of several categories within a particular genre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for subgenre in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sub- + genre. The correct English form is subgenre, spelled S-U-B-G-E-N-R-E.
Definition
- 1One of several categories within a particular genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subgenre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.
Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
Etymology
From sub- + genre.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).