Subic
/ˈsu.bɪk/
"subic" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Subic” is uncommon English (frequency #66,322 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,322
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A barangay of Baliwag, Bulacan, Philippines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subic · Subic · English
Subic · rank #66,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,322
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subgenus
Nearest frequency peer: subgenus (-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 “Subic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- straightfor…
straightforwardly
33,682 corpus weight
- strangles
strangles
33,681 corpus weight
- subgenus
subgenus
33,680 corpus weight
- Subic
Subic
33,679 corpus weight
- sunbae
sunbae
33,678 corpus weight
- superfamily
superfamily
33,677 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Subic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Subic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsu.bɪk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Subic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Subic is uncommon English at frequency #66,322 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈsu.bɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Subic in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Subic, spelled S-U-B-I-C.
Definition
- 1A barangay of Baliwag, Bulacan, Philippines.
- 2A municipality of Zambales, Central Luzon, Philippines.
- 3Subic Bay (a bay of Zambales, Central Luzon, Philippines)
- 4Several barangays of Agoncillo, Batangas, Philippines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Subic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meronyms: Aningway Sacatihan, Asinan Poblacion, Asinan Proper, Baraca-Camachile, Batiawan, Calapacuan, Calapandayan, Cawag, Ilwas, Mangan-Vaca, Matain, Naugsol, Pamatawan, San Isidro, Santo Tomas, Wawandue — barangays of Subic
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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