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unformed

adjective

unformed is spelled U-N-F-O-R-M-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unformed means “Not formed or made” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unformed?

Letters8: U-N-F-O-R-M-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 91,522nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is unformed?

Unformed appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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 unformed?

  • US

Unformed has 2 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-unformed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of unformed

  • more unformed comparative
  • most unformed superlative

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

What does unformed mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not formed or made.

  2. 2

    Not having a definite form; shapeless; amorphous.

  3. 3

    Not well developed.

  4. 4

    Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.

  5. 5

    Not grouped into any constellation.

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

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