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undersupply

verb, noun

undersupply is spelled U-N-D-E-R-S-U-P-P-L-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, undersupply means “To provide with insufficient supplies; to supply inadequately” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in undersupply?

Letters11: U-N-D-E-R-S-U-P-P-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is undersupply?

Undersupply appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

How do you pronounce undersupply?

  • 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-undersupply.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of undersupply

  • undersupplies present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • undersupplying participle, present
  • undersupplied participle, past

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

What does undersupply mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To provide with insufficient supplies; to supply inadequately

noun

  1. 1

    An inadequate supply.

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

Where does undersupply come from?

From under- + supply.

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

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