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undelete

verb

undelete is spelled U-N-D-E-L-E-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, undelete means “To recover (a file, record, etc.) from a deleted state; restore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in undelete?

Letters8: U-N-D-E-L-E-T-E
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th 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 undelete?

Undelete appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).

How do you pronounce undelete?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-undelete.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of undelete

  • undeletes present, singular, he/she/it
  • undeleting participle, present
  • undeleted participle, past

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

What does undelete mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To recover (a file, record, etc.) from a deleted state; restore.

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

Where does undelete come from?

From un- + delete.

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

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