unassuming

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The English entry for unassuming is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʌnəˈsjuːmɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,382 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for unassuming, with forms such as "nuassuming", "uanssuming", and "unassmuing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + assuming. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is unassuming, spelled U-N-A-S-S-U-M-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.