uncoupling
"uncoupling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncoupling” is uncommon English (frequency #67,923 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,923
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.
| 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) |
Where “uncoupling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
uncoupling is uncommon English at frequency #67,923 among 23,789 “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.
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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- The one correct English spelling is U-N-C-O-U-P-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.