unamerican
"unamerican" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unamerican” is uncommon English (frequency #76,423 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,423
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of un-American.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unamerican · unamerican · English
unamerican · rank #76,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,423
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH ultrathin
Nearest frequency peer: ultrathin (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “unamerican”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- turbot
turbot
23,584 corpus weight
- twosome
twosome
23,580 corpus weight
- ultrathin
ultrathin
23,579 corpus weight
- unamerican
unamerican
23,578 corpus weight
- uncultivated
uncultivated
23,577 corpus weight
- undescribed
undescribed
23,573 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unamerican” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unamerican |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unamerican” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unamerican is uncommon English at frequency #76,423 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of un-American.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unamerican, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + American. The correct English form is unamerican, spelled U-N-A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of un-American.
Etymology
From un- + American.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).