unhurried
"unhurried" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unhurried” is uncommon English (frequency #80,084 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,084
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not hurried; not rushed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unhurried · unhurried · English
unhurried · rank #80,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,084
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unfrozen
Nearest frequency peer: unfrozen (-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 “unhurried”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- uncharitable
uncharitable
19,920 corpus weight
- uncoupled
uncoupled
19,919 corpus weight
- unfrozen
unfrozen
19,918 corpus weight
- unhurried
unhurried
19,917 corpus weight
- unipolar
unipolar
19,916 corpus weight
- unluckily
unluckily
19,915 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unhurried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unhurried |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unhurried” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unhurried is uncommon English at frequency #80,084 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not hurried; not rushed.".
unhurried has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + hurried. The correct English form is unhurried, spelled U-N-H-U-R-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not hurried; not rushed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unhurried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She proceeded at a moderate, unhurried pace.
Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
Etymology
From un- + hurried.
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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