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underclothing

noun

underclothing is spelled U-N-D-E-R-C-L-O-T-H-I-N-G: 13 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, underclothing means “clothing worn next to the skin; underwear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of underclothing is underclothings.

How many letters and syllables are in underclothing?

Letters13: U-N-D-E-R-C-L-O-T-H-I-N-G
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 underclothing?

Underclothing 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 underclothing?

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

Forms of underclothing

  • underclothings plural

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

What does underclothing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    clothing worn next to the skin; underwear.

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

Where does underclothing come from?

From under- + clothing.

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

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