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uncross

verb

uncross is spelled U-N-C-R-O-S-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, uncross means “To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uncross?

Letters7: U-N-C-R-O-S-S
In writingabout once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is uncross?

Uncross appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).

Forms of uncross

  • uncrosses present, singular, he/she/it
  • uncrossing participle, present
  • uncrossed participle, past

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

What does uncross mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position.

  2. 2

    To undo the crossing or traversal of (something).

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

Where does uncross come from?

From un- + cross.

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

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