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unladylike

adjective

unladylike is spelled U-N-L-A-D-Y-L-I-K-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unladylike means “Not ladylike; ill-mannered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unladylike?

Letters10: U-N-L-A-D-Y-L-I-K-E
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th 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 unladylike?

Unladylike appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 unladylike

  • more unladylike comparative
  • most unladylike superlative
  • unlady-like
  • unladilike rare

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

What does unladylike mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not ladylike; ill-mannered.

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

Where does unladylike come from?

From un- + ladylike.

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

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