uncultivated
"uncultivated" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncultivated” is uncommon English (frequency #76,424 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,424
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uncultivated · uncultivated · English
uncultivated · rank #76,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,424
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unamerican
Nearest frequency peer: unamerican (-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 “uncultivated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- twosome
twosome
23,580 corpus weight
- ultrathin
ultrathin
23,579 corpus weight
- unamerican
unamerican
23,578 corpus weight
- uncultivated
uncultivated
23,577 corpus weight
- undescribed
undescribed
23,573 corpus weight
- unfreeze
unfreeze
23,571 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uncultivated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uncultivated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “uncultivated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uncultivated is uncommon English at frequency #76,424 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
uncultivated doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + cultivated. The correct English form is uncultivated, spelled U-N-C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
- 2Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge
- 3Not attended to or fostered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uncultivated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.
Etymology
From un- + cultivated.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).