unbuxom
/ʌnˈbʌksəm/
"unbuxom" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unbuxom” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having small breasts; not buxom.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unbuxom · unbuxom · English
unbuxom · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | unbuxom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʌnˈbʌksəm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unbuxom” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unbuxom is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ʌnˈbʌksəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having small breasts; not buxom.".
Zero misspellings are on record for unbuxom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + buxom. The correct English form is unbuxom, spelled U-N-B-U-X-O-M.
Definition
- 1Having small breasts; not buxom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unbuxom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With clothes or without she is, in a slender, graceful and most unbuxom way, quite beautiful.
[…] the ersatz-French cafes, the ramen-ya, the robatayaki, the Brazilian/Israeli/Ethiopian curiosities, the beer cellars (where unbuxom waitresses masquerade hopefully as buxom Bavarian bar maids), […]
Etymology
From un- + buxom.
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.