unstressed
/ʌnˈstɹɛst/
"unstressed" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unstressed” is uncommon English (frequency #65,602 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,602
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - not stressed or accentuated
Corpus desk
Index EN-unstressed · unstressed · English
unstressed · rank #65,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,602
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unspoilt
Nearest frequency peer: unspoilt (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “unstressed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unplugging
unplugging
34,403 corpus weight
- unrecognised
unrecognised
34,402 corpus weight
- unsolvable
unsolvable
34,401 corpus weight
- unspoilt
unspoilt
34,400 corpus weight
- unstressed
unstressed
34,399 corpus weight
- uselessly
uselessly
34,395 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unstressed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unstressed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʌnˈstɹɛst/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unstressed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unstressed is uncommon English at frequency #65,602 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ʌnˈstɹɛst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
unstressed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + stressed. The correct English form is unstressed, spelled U-N-S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1not stressed or accentuated
- 2not subject to stress
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unstressed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
Etymology
From un- + stressed.
This word in other languages
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.
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