subunit

Other forms of subunit

plural

subunits·

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 subunit

What does subunit mean?

subunit means "a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit".

How many syllables are in subunit?

subunit has 3 syllables: sub-u-nit. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˌsʌˈbjunɪt/.

What is another word for subunit?

Close synonyms include fractional monetary unit. 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.

Is subunit a common word?

subunit 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.