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unhide

/ʌnˈhaɪd/verb

unhide is a verb meaning “To restore to visibility from being hidden; to show again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-H-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does unhide mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To restore to visibility from being hidden; to show again.

    How do I unhide the editing toolbar? I need to use those commands again.

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

How do you pronounce unhide?

  • /ʌnˈhaɪd/

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

Forms of unhide

  • unhides present, singular, he/she/it
  • unhiding participle, present
  • unhid past
  • unhidden participle, past

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

How common is unhide?

Unhide appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

Where does unhide come from?

From un- + hide.

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