unbeautiful
"unbeautiful" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unbeautiful” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unbeautiful · unbeautiful · English
unbeautiful · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | unbeautiful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unbeautiful” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unbeautiful is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for unbeautiful in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful. The correct English form is unbeautiful, spelled U-N-B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unbeautiful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
From here, over the low summit at Clay Cross and down the Erewash Valley, was one long and unbeautiful replica of the road from Leeds.
The movie looks like battlefield documentary, grainy and (purposely) unbeautiful.
Etymology
From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.
Synonyms
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.