subhead
noun
subhead is a noun meaning “A subheading or subtitle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-H-E-A-D, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subhead is subheads.
What does subhead mean?
noun
- 1
A subheading or subtitle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of subhead
- subheads plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subhead?
Subhead appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Subhead in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense subheading:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Untertitel, Zwischenzeile |
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 subhead come from?
From sub- + head. Piecewise doublet of subchef and subchief.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).