unloquacious
"unloquacious" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unloquacious” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not loquacious, having little to say.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unloquacious · unloquacious · English
unloquacious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unloquacious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unloquacious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unloquacious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not loquacious, having little to say.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unloquacious, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + loquacious. The correct English form is unloquacious, spelled U-N-L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Not loquacious, having little to say.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unloquacious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Between two such unloquacious persons, dialogue was naturally slow at first, but they had a long drive before them.
The Arab odd-job boy finished his watering and silently returned to the house. Like that young Hardcastle, Freddy thought. Like Hardcastle, the gardener’s boy of Freddy’s youth, who had moved back and forth, remotely attending to things, unloquacious, unsmiling, totally unwilling to conspire in Freddy’s games.
Etymology
From un- + loquacious.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.