unfollow
verb
unfollow is a verb meaning “To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-F-O-L-L-O-W, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unfollow mean?
verb
- 1
To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unfollow?
- 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-unfollow.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unfollow
- unfollows present, singular, he/she/it
- unfollowing participle, present
- unfollowed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is unfollow?
Unfollow appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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).
Unfollow in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity):
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | se désabonner, arrêter de suivre |
| German | entfolgen |
| Portuguese | desseguir |
| Spanish | dejar de seguir |
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 unfollow come from?
From un- + follow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).