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unsurprising

adjective

unsurprising is spelled U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is unsuprising: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Unsurprising is an adjective meaning “Not surprising; expected”.

How many letters and syllables are in unsurprising?

Letters12: U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, unsuprising, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell unsurprising?

Unsurprising is spelled U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for unsurprising in either form.

unsurprisingthe right spelling30 searches a month
unsuprisinga missing r10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is unsurprising?

Unsurprising appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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).

How do you pronounce unsurprising?

    Unsurprising has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    What does unsurprising mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      Not surprising; expected.

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

    Unsurprising in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense not surprising:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchattendu, prévu, peu surprenant
    Germanwenig überraschend, zu erwartend, vorhersehbar
    Portuguesenada surpreendente

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does unsurprising come from?

    From un- + surprising.

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

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