subsidiarity
/səbˌsɪdiˈæɹɪti/
"subsidiarity" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subsidiarity” is uncommon English (frequency #92,117 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,117
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The principle that initiative (whether in government, business or religion) ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranation...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsidiarity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səbˌsɪdiˈæɹɪti/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #92,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “subsidiarity” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
subsidiarity is uncommon English at frequency #92,117 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /səbˌsɪdiˈæɹɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The principle that initiative (whether in government, business or religion) ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranation...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for subsidiarity, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin subsidiarius. By surface analysis, subsidiary + -ity. The correct English form is subsidiarity, spelled S-U-B-S-I-D-I-A-R-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The principle that initiative (whether in government, business or religion) ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)
Etymology
From Latin subsidiarius. By surface analysis, subsidiary + -ity.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “subsidiarity”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-U-B-S-I-D-I-A-R-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.