subsequent
/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/adjective, noun
subsequent is spelled S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is subsquent: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 147 of all searches for the word. Subsequent is an adjective meaning “Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely”.
How many letters and syllables are in subsequent?
| Letters | 10: S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,683rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, subsquent, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell subsequent?
Subsequent is spelled S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 148 of the searches for subsequent 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 subsequent?
Subsequent appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd 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 subsequent?
- UK /ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
- UK /ˈsʌbsəkwənt/
- US /ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/
Subsequent has 3 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-subsequent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of subsequent
- subsequents plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does subsequent mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
- 2
Following in order of place; succeeding.
- 3
Following a line in the earth that is more easily eroded.
noun
- 1
A subsequent stream or faultline.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Subsequent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense following in time:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | subséquent, suivant, prochain |
| German | anschließend, später, darauffolgend, folgend |
| Portuguese | subsequente, seguinte |
| Spanish | subsiguiente, posterior, subseyente (disused), ulterior, subsecuente |
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 subsequent come from?
Borrowed from Middle French subséquent, from Latin subsequentis, form of subsequēns, present participle of subsequor (“to follow, to succeed”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).