Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subsister

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-sis-ter
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who subsists.

Example Sentences

"a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil"

Etymology

From subsist + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: subsist

Inflected Forms

subsisters (plural)

Synonyms

survivor

Questions

What does subsister mean?: One who subsists.
Where does subsister come from?: From subsist + -er.

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