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unhuman

adjective, noun, verb

unhuman is spelled U-N-H-U-M-A-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unhuman means “Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unhuman?

Letters7: U-N-H-U-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is unhuman?

Unhuman appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).

Forms of unhuman

  • more unhuman comparative
  • most unhuman superlative
  • unhumans plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • unhumaning participle, present
  • unhumaned participle, past

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

What does unhuman mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.

noun

  1. 1

    One who is not human; nonhuman.

verb

  1. 1

    To make less human; to remove human qualities.

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

Where does unhuman come from?

From un- + human.

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

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