unsung
/ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/
"unsung" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unsung” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,641
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unsung · unsung · English
unsung · rank #32,641 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,641
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unreported
Nearest frequency peer: unreported (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “unsung”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- unfathomable
unfathomable
67,364 corpus weight
- ungodly
ungodly
67,363 corpus weight
- unprofitable
unprofitable
67,362 corpus weight
- unreported
unreported
67,361 corpus weight
- unsung
unsung
67,360 corpus weight
- valour
valour
67,357 corpus weight
What this shows “unsung” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unsung |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “unsung”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around unsung (IPA /ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,641 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for unsung, with forms such as "nusung", "unnsung", and "unsnug". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "using", "unsure", "unsound", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + sung. The correct English form is unsung, spelled U-N-S-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
- 2Not sung.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unsung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes.
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight…
Etymology
From un- + sung.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nusung
- unnsung
- unsnug
- unssung
- unsugn
- unsungg
- unsunng
- unusng
- usnung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unsung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unsung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).