unleavened
un·leaven·ed/ˌʌnˈlɛvənd/adjective
unleavened is an adjective meaning “Without any yeast or other raising agent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-L-E-A-V-E-N-E-D and has 3 syllables (un·leaven·ed), and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unleavened mean?
adjective
- 1
Without any yeast or other raising agent.
They were eating unleavened bread.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unleavened?
- UK /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛvn̩d/
- US /ˌʌnˈlɛvənd/
Unleavened has 3 syllables, split un·leaven·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unleavened.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is unleavened?
Unleavened appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th 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).
Unleavened in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without yeast:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | ungesäuert, derb |
| Portuguese | ázimo |
| Spanish | ácimo, ázimo, sin levadura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.