six feet under
"six-feet-under" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“six feet under” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Buried underground; not alive; dead.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | six feet under |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “six feet under” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for six feet under is 14 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Buried underground; not alive; dead.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for six feet under, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Six feet refers to the traditional depth to which graves are dug. The correct English form is six feet under, spelled S-I-X- -F-E-E-T- -U-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Buried underground; not alive; dead.
Etymology
Six feet refers to the traditional depth to which graves are dug.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “six feet under”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-I-X- -F-E-E-T- -U-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.