subarctic

1. 1.

   of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle

Questions about subarctic

What does subarctic mean?

subarctic means "of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle".

How many syllables are in subarctic?

subarctic has 3 syllables and divides as su-barc-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is subarctic a common word?

subarctic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.