subsequently
/ˈsʌb.sɪ.kwənt.li/adverb
subsequently is spelled S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is subsquently: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 92 of all searches for the word. Subsequently is an adverb meaning “Following, afterwards in either time or place”.
How many letters and syllables are in subsequently?
| Letters | 12: S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,838th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, subsquently, about 40 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 subsequently?
Subsequently is spelled S-U-B-S-E-Q-U-E-N-T-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 92 of the searches for subsequently 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 subsequently?
Subsequently appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th 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 subsequently?
- US /ˈsʌb.sɪ.kwənt.li/
Subsequently has 4 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-subsequently.ogg, En-au-subsequently.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does subsequently mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Following, afterwards in either time or place.
- 2
Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction), consequently.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Subsequently in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense subsequently:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ensuite, subséquemment |
| German | anschließend, danach, darauffolgend, daraufhin, hierauf, nachher |
| Portuguese | subsequentemente |
| Spanish | posteriormente |
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 subsequently come from?
From subsequent + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).