subjunctive
/səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/
"subjunctive" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subjunctive” is uncommon English (frequency #50,251 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,251
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subjunctive · subjunctive · English
subjunctive · rank #50,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,251
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subsist
Nearest frequency peer: subsist (+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 “subjunctive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stickler
stickler
49,753 corpus weight
- Stott
Stott
49,752 corpus weight
- subjunctive
subjunctive
49,750 corpus weight
- subsist
subsist
49,749 corpus weight
- sulk
sulk
49,747 corpus weight
- sunspot
sunspot
49,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “subjunctive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subjunctive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “subjunctive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
subjunctive is uncommon English at frequency #50,251 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.".
subjunctive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join. The correct English form is subjunctive, spelled S-U-B-J-U-N-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
Etymology
From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.
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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