underemployment
"underemployment" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“underemployment” is uncommon English (frequency #66,371 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,371
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being underemployed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-underemployment · underemployment · English
underemployment · rank #66,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,371
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unbalance
Nearest frequency peer: unbalance (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “underemployment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tuvalu
Tuvalu
33,633 corpus weight
- unbalance
unbalance
33,631 corpus weight
- underemploy…
underemployment
33,630 corpus weight
- uneconomic
uneconomic
33,629 corpus weight
- unga
unga
33,628 corpus weight
- unheated
unheated
33,627 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “underemployment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | underemployment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #66,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “underemployment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
underemployment is uncommon English at frequency #66,371 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition of being underemployed.".
underemployment doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From under- + employment. The correct English form is underemployment, spelled U-N-D-E-R-E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The condition of being underemployed.
Etymology
From under- + employment.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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