unscrewing
"unscrewing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unscrewing” is uncommon English (frequency #97,668 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,668
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act by which something is unscrewed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unscrewing · unscrewing · English
unscrewing · rank #97,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,668
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,789
- PHOTO-FINISH unredacted
Nearest frequency peer: unredacted (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “unscrewing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- unethically
unethically
2,336 corpus weight
- UNIVAC
UNIVAC
2,335 corpus weight
- unredacted
unredacted
2,334 corpus weight
- unscrewing
unscrewing
2,333 corpus weight
- untouchabil…
untouchability
2,332 corpus weight
- unworn
unworn
2,331 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “unscrewing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unscrewing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unscrewing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
unscrewing is uncommon English at frequency #97,668 among 23,789 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is unscrewed.".
No misspelling variants are generated for unscrewing in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is unscrewing, spelled U-N-S-C-R-E-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is unscrewed.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.