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underdone

adjective

underdone is spelled U-N-D-E-R-D-O-N-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, underdone means “insufficiently cooked; undercooked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in underdone?

Letters9: U-N-D-E-R-D-O-N-E
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th 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 underdone?

Underdone appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 underdone?

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

Forms of underdone

  • more underdone comparative
  • most underdone superlative

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

What does underdone mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    insufficiently cooked; undercooked

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

Where does underdone come from?

From under- + done.

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

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