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subrange

noun

subrange is a noun meaning “A subdivision of a mountain range” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-R-A-N-G-E, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subrange is subranges.

What does subrange mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A subdivision of a mountain range.

  2. 2

    A subset of a given range or numeric set.

    We are concerned with the subrange of integers between a and b.

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

Forms of subrange

  • subranges plural
  • sub-range

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

How common is subrange?

Subrange appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Where does subrange come from?

From sub- + range.

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