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undone

un·done/ʌnˈdʌn/adjective, verb

undone is spelled U-N-D-O-N-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (un·done). It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, undone means “Not done” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in undone?

Letters6: U-N-D-O-N-E
Syllables2: un·done
In writing2.3 times per million words; the 17,813th 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 undone?

Undone appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th 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 undone?

  • /ʌnˈdʌn/

Undone has 2 syllables, split un·done in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-undone.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-undone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does undone mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not done.

  2. 2

    Not fastened.

    Your flies are undone.

  3. 3

    Ruined; brought to nought.

    Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of undo (a form of undo)

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

Undone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishdeshecho (Not done)
Germanungesichert (unfastened), verloren (brought to nought)
Portuguesedesamarrado, solto (unfastened)

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 undone come from?

From un- + done.

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

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