subscribe
/səbˈskɹaɪb/verb
subscribe is spelled S-U-B-S-C-R-I-B-E. The wrong spelling people search most is subcribe: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Subscribe is a verb meaning “To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name)”.
How many letters and syllables are in subscribe?
| Letters | 9: S-U-B-S-C-R-I-B-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, subcribe, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell subscribe?
Subscribe is spelled S-U-B-S-C-R-I-B-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for subscribe in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is subscribe?
Subscribe appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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).
How do you pronounce subscribe?
- US /səbˈskɹaɪb/
Subscribe has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-subscribe.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with subscribe?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as subscribe from its last stressed vowel (/aɪb/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of subscribe
- subscribes present, singular, he/she/it
- subscribing participle, present
- subscribed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does subscribe mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- 2
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
- 3
To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- 4
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
- 5
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 6
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- 7
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- 8
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
Each man subscribed ten dollars.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate subscribe?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of subscribe: CLS.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Subscribe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abonner, s'abonner, souscrire |
| German | abonnieren |
| Portuguese | assinar , aderir apoiar concordar |
| Spanish | suscribirse, subscribirse , suscribir, subscribir , abonar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does subscribe come from?
From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere (“write beneath”). By surface analysis, sub- + scribe. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).