suboxone
"suboxone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suboxone” is uncommon English (frequency #80,929 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,929
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A combination drug of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suboxone · suboxone · English
suboxone · rank #80,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subclinical
Nearest frequency peer: subclinical (-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 “suboxone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- striae
striae
19,075 corpus weight
- stupefied
stupefied
19,074 corpus weight
- subclinical
subclinical
19,073 corpus weight
- suboxone
suboxone
19,072 corpus weight
- substantiat…
substantiation
19,071 corpus weight
- summerhouse
summerhouse
19,068 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “suboxone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suboxone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suboxone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suboxone is uncommon English at frequency #80,929 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A combination drug of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions.".
suboxone has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Marketing name, perhaps a blend of Subutex + naloxone. The correct English form is suboxone, spelled S-U-B-O-X-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A combination drug of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suboxone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not far behind OxyContin is Suboxone, the brand name for a drug whose primary ingredient is buprenorphine, a semisynthetic opioid.
I have 8 milligram Suboxone for maintenance in case I go through withdrawals.
Etymology
Marketing name, perhaps a blend of Subutex + naloxone.
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).