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unobservant

adjective

unobservant is spelled U-N-O-B-S-E-R-V-A-N-T: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unobservant means “Not observant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unobservant?

Letters11: U-N-O-B-S-E-R-V-A-N-T
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th 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 unobservant?

Unobservant appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 unobservant

  • more unobservant comparative
  • most unobservant superlative

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

What does unobservant mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not observant.

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

Where does unobservant come from?

From un- + observant.

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

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