suborder
"suborder" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suborder” is uncommon English (frequency #89,953 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,953
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suborder · suborder · English
suborder · rank #89,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subcortical
Nearest frequency peer: subcortical (-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 “suborder”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sternal
sternal
10,054 corpus weight
- stripling
stripling
10,051 corpus weight
- subcortical
subcortical
10,049 corpus weight
- suborder
suborder
10,048 corpus weight
- sucralose
sucralose
10,044 corpus weight
- suddenness
suddenness
10,043 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “suborder” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suborder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suborder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suborder is uncommon English at frequency #89,953 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suborder, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sub- + order. The correct English form is suborder, spelled S-U-B-O-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
- 2A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
- 3Synonym of subordering.
Etymology
From sub- + order.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).