unbolt
"unbolt" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unbolt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unbolt · unbolt · English
unbolt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | unbolt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unbolt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unbolt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To unlock by undoing the bolts of.".
No misspelling variants are generated for unbolt in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + bolt. The correct English form is unbolt, spelled U-N-B-O-L-T.
Definition
- 1To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unbolt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down; He shall unbolt the gates.
Diesel engines roar, trailer trucks rumble over the streets and an air wrench screams as a worker at the tire repair shop on the corner unbolts a wheel from a sanitation truck.
Etymology
From un- + bolt.
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.