unconventional
adjective, noun
unconventional is spelled U-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is unconvential: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Unconventional is an adjective meaning “Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards”.
How many letters and syllables are in unconventional?
| Letters | 14: U-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unconvential, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell unconventional?
Unconventional is spelled U-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for unconventional in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is unconventional?
Unconventional appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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 unconventional?
Unconventional has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unconventional.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unconventional
- more unconventional comparative
- most unconventional superlative
- unconventionals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unconventional mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
- 2
Out of the ordinary.
- 3
Atypical.
noun
- 1
Something or someone that is unconventional.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unconventional in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | unkonventionell |
| Spanish | anticonvencional , no convencional , poco convencional |
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 unconventional come from?
From un- + conventional.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).