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Substackerati

Substackerati noun: substack authors collectively.

Noun

Substackerati pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Substack authors collectively.
    • As more people signed up to join the Substackerati, the company garnered praise from journalists.2020 November 16, Clio Chang, “The Substackerati”, in Columbia Journalism Review, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug...
    • A lot of people have trouble pigeonholing the "substackerati", which only refers to a few people anyway, and end up saying silly things about them.2021 April 12, Rob Beschizza, “Substack, Ghost and the revenge of the bloggers”, in Boing Boing, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2025

Origin of Substackerati

Blend of Substack + literati. Coined by Clio Chang in a 2020 article (see quotation below).

Questions about Substackerati

What does Substackerati mean?
Substackerati means substack authors collectively.
What part of speech is Substackerati?
Substackerati is a noun.

Words near Substackerati in the dictionary

  1. subsquares
  2. subst
  3. subst.
  4. substack
  5. substacker
  6. Substackerati
  7. substackers
  8. substacks
  9. substage
  10. substages
  11. substalagmite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Substackerati (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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