uncoated
"uncoated" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncoated” is uncommon English (frequency #75,520 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,520
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not coated
Corpus desk
Index EN-uncoated · uncoated · English
uncoated · rank #75,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,520
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH underbrush
Nearest frequency peer: underbrush (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “uncoated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- uncoated
uncoated
24,481 corpus weight
- underbrush
underbrush
24,480 corpus weight
- underestima…
underestimation
24,479 corpus weight
- uneaten
uneaten
24,478 corpus weight
- unhook
unhook
24,477 corpus weight
- unjustifiab…
unjustifiably
24,476 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uncoated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uncoated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “uncoated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uncoated is uncommon English at frequency #75,520 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not coated".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for uncoated, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is uncoated, spelled U-N-C-O-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not coated
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uncoated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We polish our uncoated metal disks to a mirror finish for optimum headflight characteristics and virtually no possibility of media-induced headcrash.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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