undoes
/ʌnˈdʌz/
"undoes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undoes” is uncommon English (frequency #69,548 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,548
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of undo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | undoes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʌnˈdʌz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “undoes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
undoes is uncommon English at frequency #69,548 among 23,789 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʌnˈdʌz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of undo".
undoes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is undoes, spelled U-N-D-O-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of undo
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “undoes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-D-O-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.