subliterary

1. 1.

   not written as or intended to be literature

   “subliterary works such as letters and diaries”

   Similarinformal

Questions about subliterary

What does subliterary mean?

subliterary means "not written as or intended to be literature".

How many syllables are in subliterary?

subliterary has 5 syllables and divides as su-bli-te-ra-ry 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 subliterary a common word?

subliterary 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.