unhampered
"unhampered" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unhampered” is uncommon English (frequency #99,977 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,977
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not hampered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unhampered · unhampered · English
unhampered · rank #99,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,977
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH underbody
Nearest frequency peer: underbody (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “unhampered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unconformity
unconformity
27 corpus weight
- unconventio…
unconventionally
26 corpus weight
- underbody
underbody
25 corpus weight
- unhampered
unhampered
24 corpus weight
- UNIFIL
UNIFIL
23 corpus weight
- untucked
untucked
22 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unhampered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unhampered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unhampered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unhampered is uncommon English at frequency #99,977 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not hampered.".
No misspelling variants are generated for unhampered in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + hampered. The correct English form is unhampered, spelled U-N-H-A-M-P-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not hampered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unhampered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The he won't depart," I replied, and approached still nearer. Rough and narrow ledges formed by nature gave access to the upper caves. A man might scale them if unhampered and unhindered, but to clamber upward in the face of a belligerent tribe of half-men and with a girl to assist was beyond my capability.
The bare arms and thighs and unhampered breasts of young American womanhood are brushing contentedly against him.
Etymology
From un- + hampered.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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