underrate
"underrate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“underrate” is uncommon English (frequency #83,856 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,856
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-underrate · underrate · English
underrate · rank #83,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,856
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH understeer
Nearest frequency peer: understeer (+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 “underrate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ube
ube
16,149 corpus weight
- Uehara
Uehara
16,148 corpus weight
- unbending
unbending
16,147 corpus weight
- underrate
underrate
16,145 corpus weight
- understeer
understeer
16,144 corpus weight
- unexpressed
unexpressed
16,143 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “underrate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | underrate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “underrate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
underrate is uncommon English at frequency #83,856 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for underrate, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From under- + rate. The correct English form is underrate, spelled U-N-D-E-R-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate.
Etymology
From under- + rate.
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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