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unchaste

/ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪst/adjective

unchaste is spelled U-N-C-H-A-S-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unchaste means “Not chaste; not continent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unchaste?

Letters8: U-N-C-H-A-S-T-E
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is unchaste?

Unchaste appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce unchaste?

  • /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪst/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unchaste.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with unchaste

Sounds like: unchased (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of unchaste

  • more unchaste comparative
  • most unchaste superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does unchaste mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not chaste; not continent

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Unchaste in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd:

LanguageWords
Germanunkeusch, unzüchtig, untugendhaft
Portugueseincasto

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does unchaste come from?

From Middle English unchaste, unchaast, unchast, equivalent to un- + chaste.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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