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unguided

adjective

unguided is an adjective meaning “Not guided; without a guide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-G-U-I-D-E-D, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does unguided mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Not guided; without a guide.

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

Forms of unguided

  • more unguided comparative
  • most unguided superlative

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

How common is unguided?

Unguided appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th 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).

Unguided in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense without a guide:

LanguageWords
Germanungeführt, führungslos, führerlos

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 unguided come from?

From un- + guided.

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