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undercliff

noun

undercliff is spelled U-N-D-E-R-C-L-I-F-F: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, undercliff means “A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of undercliff is undercliffs.

How many letters and syllables are in undercliff?

Letters10: U-N-D-E-R-C-L-I-F-F
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd 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 undercliff?

Undercliff appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 undercliff?

  • 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-undercliff.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of undercliff

  • undercliffs plural

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

What does undercliff mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

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

Where does undercliff come from?

From under- + cliff.

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

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