undervaluation
noun
undervaluation is a noun meaning “The act of undervaluing, of assigning too low a value to something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-O-N and has 6 syllables, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of undervaluation is undervaluations.
What does undervaluation mean?
noun
- 1
The act of undervaluing, of assigning too low a value to something.
- 2
An assigned value that is inappropriately low.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce undervaluation?
- US
Undervaluation 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-undervaluation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of undervaluation
- undervaluations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is undervaluation?
Undervaluation appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Undervaluation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | infravaloración |
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 undervaluation come from?
From under- + valuation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).