undermanned
"undermanned" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undermanned” is an uncommon English word, ranked #84,864 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #84,864
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
| 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) |
Where “undermanned” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for undermanned is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #84,864 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “undermanned”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-D-E-R-M-A-N-N-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.