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unintellectual

adjective

unintellectual is spelled U-N-I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unintellectual means “Not intellectual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unintellectual?

Letters14: U-N-I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd 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 unintellectual?

Unintellectual appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 unintellectual

  • more unintellectual comparative
  • most unintellectual superlative

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

What does unintellectual mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not intellectual.

  2. 2

    Not requiring the use of the intellect.

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

Where does unintellectual come from?

From un- + intellectual.

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

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