subscript

Other forms of subscript

plural

subscripts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subscript

What does subscript mean?

subscript means "a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subscript?

subscript has 2 syllables: sub-script. The stress falls on "sub".

What is another word for subscript?

Close synonyms include inferior, inferior. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of subscript?

The recorded antonyms are superscript, adscript, superscript.

Is subscript a common word?

subscript 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.