uncoupling
"uncoupling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncoupling” is uncommon English (frequency #67,923 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,923
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uncoupling · uncoupling · English
uncoupling · rank #67,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,923
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH uncategorized
Nearest frequency peer: uncategorized (-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 “uncoupling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ueda
Ueda
32,082 corpus weight
- unaudited
unaudited
32,080 corpus weight
- uncategoriz…
uncategorized
32,079 corpus weight
- uncoupling
uncoupling
32,078 corpus weight
- undernouris…
undernourished
32,077 corpus weight
- unequally
unequally
32,076 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uncoupling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uncoupling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “uncoupling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uncoupling is uncommon English at frequency #67,923 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.".
No misspelling variants are generated for uncoupling in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is uncoupling, spelled U-N-C-O-U-P-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uncoupling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.
This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
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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