underreporting
noun, verb
underreporting is a noun meaning “The act, or the result of insufficiently reporting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-R-E-P-O-R-T-I-N-G and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of underreporting is underreportings.
What does underreporting mean?
noun
- 1
The act, or the result of insufficiently reporting.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of underreport
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce underreporting?
Underreporting has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of underreporting
- underreportings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is underreporting?
Underreporting appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).