subletting
"subletting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subletting” is uncommon English (frequency #81,869 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,869
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of sublease.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subletting · subletting · English
subletting · rank #81,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,869
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subliminally
Nearest frequency peer: subliminally (+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 “subletting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stubblefield
stubblefield
18,135 corpus weight
- subletting
subletting
18,132 corpus weight
- subliminally
subliminally
18,131 corpus weight
- submersion
submersion
18,130 corpus weight
- Sugiyama
Sugiyama
18,127 corpus weight
- sunbelt
sunbelt
18,124 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “subletting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subletting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “subletting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
subletting is uncommon English at frequency #81,869 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of sublease.".
Zero misspellings are on record for subletting in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is subletting, spelled S-U-B-L-E-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Synonym of sublease.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how subletting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.
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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