unbalance
/ʌnˈbæləns/
"unbalance" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unbalance” is uncommon English (frequency #66,370 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,370
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To cause to be out of balance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unbalance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʌnˈbæləns/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unbalance” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
unbalance is uncommon English at frequency #66,370 among 23,789 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʌnˈbæləns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To cause to be out of balance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for unbalance, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + balance. The correct English form is unbalance, spelled U-N-B-A-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1To cause to be out of balance.
Etymology
From un- + balance.
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); 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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Using “unbalance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-B-A-L-A-N-C-E - 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.