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subparallel

adjective

subparallel is spelled S-U-B-P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, subparallel means “Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in subparallel?

Letters11: S-U-B-P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L
In writingabout once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is subparallel?

Subparallel appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of subparallel

  • more subparallel comparative
  • most subparallel superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does subparallel mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does subparallel come from?

From sub- + parallel.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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