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substrings

substrings is the plural of substring.

Meaning of substring

Noun

substring (plural substrings)

  1. A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
    • The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

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Questions about substrings

What is substrings the plural of?
Substrings is the plural of substring.

Words near substrings in the dictionary

  1. substriate
  2. substriated
  3. substring
  4. substringed
  5. substringing
  6. substrings
  7. substruct
  8. substructed
  9. substructing
  10. substruction
  11. substructional

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substrings (page history and authors); substring (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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