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substitutionary

adjective

substitutionary is spelled S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, substitutionary means “Of or relating to substitution or replacement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in substitutionary?

Letters15: S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is substitutionary?

Substitutionary appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).

Forms of substitutionary

  • more substitutionary comparative
  • most substitutionary superlative

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

What does substitutionary mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to substitution or replacement.

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

Where does substitutionary come from?

From substitution + -ary.

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

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