undermanned
"undermanned" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undermanned” is uncommon English (frequency #84,864 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,864
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-undermanned · undermanned · English
undermanned · rank #84,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,864
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH uncorrelated
Nearest frequency peer: uncorrelated (-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 “undermanned”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- uncharged
uncharged
15,141 corpus weight
- unconsolida…
unconsolidated
15,140 corpus weight
- uncontamina…
uncontaminated
15,139 corpus weight
- uncorrelated
uncorrelated
15,138 corpus weight
- undermanned
undermanned
15,137 corpus weight
- unmixed
unmixed
15,134 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “undermanned” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | undermanned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “undermanned” in English
Rare enough to double-check
undermanned is uncommon English at frequency #84,864 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Insufficiently manned; understaffed.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for undermanned, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is undermanned, spelled U-N-D-E-R-M-A-N-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how undermanned appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
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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