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supersub

noun

supersub is spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-U-B: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, supersub means “A substitute player who significantly contributes to a team's success” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of supersub is supersubs.

How many letters and syllables are in supersub?

Letters8: S-U-P-E-R-S-U-B
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is supersub?

Supersub appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 supersub?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-supersub.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with supersub?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as supersub.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: superbus.

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 supersub

  • supersubs plural
  • super sub

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

What does supersub mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A substitute player who significantly contributes to a team's success.

  2. 2

    In non-standard cricketing rules, a substitute player who is able to come on and replace any player at any point during the game, and to take over the other player's batting and bowling duties.

  3. 3

    A particularly well-equipped and powerful submarine (underwater vehicle).

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

Where does supersub come from?

From super- + sub.

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

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