sublime
/səˈblaɪm/
"sublime" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sublime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,522
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of sublimate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sublime · sublime · English
sublime · rank #15,522 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,522
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH styling
Nearest frequency peer: styling (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sublime”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stoned
stoned
84,483 corpus weight
- Strauss
Strauss
84,482 corpus weight
- styling
styling
84,480 corpus weight
- sublime
sublime
84,479 corpus weight
- Sunni
Sunni
84,477 corpus weight
- sweetness
sweetness
84,476 corpus weight
What this shows “sublime” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sublime |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /səˈblaɪm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sublime”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sublime (IPA /səˈblaɪm/), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,522 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sublime, with forms such as "sbulime", "ssublime", and "subblime". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "subside", "subprime", "slime", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *upó Partly from the following: * From Middle English sublimen, sublime, sublyme (“to exalt, extol, glorify, honour; (alchemy) to refine (a substance) by vaporizing in a closed container; to obtain (a substance) by cooling vapour obtained through … The correct English form is sublime, spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of sublimate.
- 2Synonym of sublimate.
- 3To raise (someone or an intangible thing) to a state of (especially moral or spiritual) excellence; to exalt.
- 4To cause (someone or something) to ascend; to raise (someone or something) to a high position.
- 5To cause (juice or sap) to rise in a plant.
- 6Especially of the sun: to heat (something) and cause vapours, etc., to rise from it.
- 7To purify (someone) from a bad influence or from sin.
- 8To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to exalt.
- 9To raise (a physical thing) to a state of excellence; to improve.
- 10Synonym of sublimate.
- 11Synonym of sublimate.
- 12To become higher in quality or status; to improve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sublime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sub[tle]. […] VVho are you? Ana[nias]. A faithfull Brother, if it pleaſe you. Sub. VVhat's that? A Lullianiſt? a Ripley? Filius artis? Can you ſublime, and dulcefie?
The aſhes either of Pit-Coal, or Sea-Coal, make no Efferveſcence vvith Alkalies or Acids. VVhence the ſaline Principle is altogether volatile, and ſublimed avvay by the fire.
Etymology
PIE word *upó Partly from the following: * From Middle English sublimen, sublime, sublyme (“to exalt, extol, glorify, honour; (alchemy) to refine (a substance) by vaporizing in a closed container; to obtain (a substance) by cooling vapour obtained through sublimation; to extract (a pure substance) from a mixture by sublimation; to sublimate (a substance)”), from Middle French sublimer, Old French sublimer (“to exalt, glorify, honour; to refine (a substance) by vaporizing in a closed container; of a substance: to undergo sublimation”) (modern French sublimer), and from its etymon Latin sublīmāre, the present active infinitive of sublimō (“to elevate, raise; to soar”) (compare Late Latin sublimō (“to elevate, raise; to exalt, glorify, honour; to sublimate, vaporize”)), from sublīmis (“elevated, raised; exalted, uplifted, sublime; elevated in style”) (from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under; up to’) + possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”) (whence Latin līmen (“threshold”) and līmus (“askew; sideways”))) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). * From sublime (adjective). Cognates * Catalan sublimar * Italian sublimare * Old Occitan sublimar * Portuguese sublimar * Spanish sublimar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbulime
- ssublime
- subblime
- subilme
- subliem
- sublimme
- subllime
- sublmie
- sulbime
- usblime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sublime - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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