underripe
adjective
underripe is an adjective meaning “Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-R-I-P-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does underripe mean?
adjective
- 1
Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating.
The underripe pears tasted fine, but were still a little crunchy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce underripe?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-underripe.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of underripe
- more underripe comparative
- most underripe superlative
- underipe
- under-ripe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is underripe?
Underripe appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Where does underripe come from?
From under- + ripe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).