undernourished
"undernourished" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undernourished” is uncommon English (frequency #67,924 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,924
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-undernourished · undernourished · English
undernourished · rank #67,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,924
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH uncoupling
Nearest frequency peer: uncoupling (-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 “undernourished”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unaudited
unaudited
32,080 corpus weight
- uncategoriz…
uncategorized
32,079 corpus weight
- uncoupling
uncoupling
32,078 corpus weight
- undernouris…
undernourished
32,077 corpus weight
- unequally
unequally
32,076 corpus weight
- unleavened
unleavened
32,074 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “undernourished” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | undernourished |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #67,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “undernourished” in English
Rare enough to double-check
undernourished is uncommon English at frequency #67,924 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for undernourished, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From under- + nourished. The correct English form is undernourished, spelled U-N-D-E-R-N-O-U-R-I-S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.
Etymology
From under- + nourished.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).