underachievement
noun
underachievement is a noun meaning “An achievement that is less than expected; underperformance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-A-C-H-I-E-V-E-M-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of underachievement is underachievements.
What does underachievement mean?
noun
- 1
An achievement that is less than expected; underperformance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce underachievement?
- 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-underachievement.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of underachievement
- underachievements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is underachievement?
Underachievement appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).