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uncultivated

adjective

uncultivated is spelled U-N-C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, uncultivated means “Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uncultivated?

Letters12: U-N-C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 75,877th 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 uncultivated?

Uncultivated appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 uncultivated

  • more uncultivated comparative
  • most uncultivated superlative

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

What does uncultivated mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.

  2. 2

    Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge

  3. 3

    Not attended to or fostered.

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

Uncultivated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not cultivated (land):

LanguageWords
Portugueseinculto
Spanishinculto

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 uncultivated come from?

From un- + cultivated.

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

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