six feet under
"six-feet-under" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“six feet under” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buried underground; not alive; dead.
Corpus desk
Index EN-six-feet-under · six feet under · English
six feet under · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | six feet under |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “six feet under” in English
Rare enough to double-check
six feet under is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how six feet under appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My grandparents are six feet under.
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.