undergraduate
"undergraduate" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undergraduate” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,000
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
Corpus desk
Index EN-undergraduate · undergraduate · English
undergraduate · rank #9,000 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,000
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH UFC
Nearest frequency peer: UFC (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “undergraduate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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91,003 corpus weight
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91,002 corpus weight
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91,001 corpus weight
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91,000 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “undergraduate” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | undergraduate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #9,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “undergraduate” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around undergraduate, anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,000 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for undergraduate, with forms such as "nudergraduate", "udnergraduate", and "unddergraduate". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From under- + graduate. The correct English form is undergraduate, spelled U-N-D-E-R-G-R-A-D-U-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how undergraduate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
It’s commonly cited that undergraduates are significantly smarter than average, with IQs ranging from 115 to 130. […] The decline in undergraduate IQs might just be another indication that the worth of a college degree has been hollowed out over time.
Etymology
From under- + graduate.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nudergraduate
- udnergraduate
- unddergraduate
- undegrraduate
- undergarduate
- underggraduate
- undergradaute
- undergradduate
- undergraduaet
- undergraduatte
- undergradutae
- undergraudate
- undergrdauate
- undergrraduate
- underrgaduate
- underrgraduate
- undregraduate
- unedrgraduate
- unndergraduate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of undergraduate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "undergraduate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 19 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,000 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.