unheed
"unheed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unheed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unheed · unheed · English
unheed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unheed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unheed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unheed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for unheed, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + heed. The correct English form is unheed, spelled U-N-H-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1To deliberately fail to heed or take notice of; disregard; ignore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unheed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unfortunately, from its liability to accident, and the necessity of entrusting it to the care of those who are either so familiar with danger as to unheed its warnings, or so infatuated as to rely, in despite of its warnings, with over-weening confidence […]
Neither the fair young English strumpet, who was Dr. White's patient, should have been permitted to unheed his advice to abstain from intercourse, and thus go on scattering her dints until they struck down some gentle wife; nor the drunken youth, who forfeited his life to his folly, have been allowed to sow the seed of the disease he bore, […]
Etymology
From un- + heed.
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.