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underrepresented

adjective, verb

underrepresented is an adjective meaning “Having less than adequate or sufficient representation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-R-E-P-R-E-S-E-N-T-E-D and has 6 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does underrepresented mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having less than adequate or sufficient representation.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of underrepresent (a form of underrepresent)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce underrepresented?

    Underrepresented has 6 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 underrepresented

    • more underrepresented comparative
    • most underrepresented superlative

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is underrepresented?

    Underrepresented appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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).

    Words people confuse with underrepresented

    Also written: under-represented (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Underrepresented in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense having little representation:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchsous-représenté
    Germanunterrepräsentiert
    Spanishinfrarrepresentado, subrepresentado

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does underrepresented come from?

    From under- + represented.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).