unemployment rate
"unemployment-rate" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unemployment rate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The percentage of people without jobs who are seeking employment within the total number of workers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unemployment rate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unemployment rate” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
unemployment rate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The percentage of people without jobs who are seeking employment within the total number of workers.".
Zero misspellings are on record for unemployment rate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is unemployment rate, spelled U-N-E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T- -R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1The percentage of people without jobs who are seeking employment within the total number of workers.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “unemployment rate”
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- The one correct English spelling is U-N-E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T- -R-A-T-E - 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.