untucked
"untucked" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“untucked” is uncommon English (frequency #99,979 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,979
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not tucked in
Corpus desk
Index EN-untucked · untucked · English
untucked · rank #99,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,979
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH UNIFIL
Nearest frequency peer: UNIFIL (-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 “untucked”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- unconventio…
unconventionally
26 corpus weight
- underbody
underbody
25 corpus weight
- unhampered
unhampered
24 corpus weight
- UNIFIL
UNIFIL
23 corpus weight
- untucked
untucked
22 corpus weight
- validator
validator
18 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “untucked” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | untucked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “untucked” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
untucked is uncommon English at frequency #99,979 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not tucked in".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for untucked, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is untucked, spelled U-N-T-U-C-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not tucked in
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how untucked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He walked down the street with his shirt untucked.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.