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unco

adjective, adverb

unco is spelled U-N-C-O: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unco means “Strange, weird” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unco?

Letters4: U-N-C-O
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is unco?

Unco appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 unco?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-unco.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with unco?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as unco.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: coun.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of unco

  • more unco comparative
  • most unco superlative

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

What does unco mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    ScotlandStrange, weird.

  2. 2

    AustraliaslangUncoordinated.

adverb

  1. 1

    ScotlandUKVery.

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

Where does unco come from?

From Scots unco, shortening of uncouth.

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

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