unuprightness

noun

"unuprightness" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“unuprightness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being unupright.

Corpus desk

Index EN-unuprightness · unuprightness · English

unuprightness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "U" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for unuprightness
PropertyValue
Headwordunuprightness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “unuprightness” in English

unuprightnesssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

unuprightness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being unupright.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unuprightness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + uprightness or unupright + -ness. The correct English form is unuprightness, spelled U-N-U-P-R-I-G-H-T-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being unupright.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how unuprightness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] they still retain the false, deceitful nature of the fallen Adam, and too often are found guilty of unuprightness before God.

Etymology

From un- + uprightness or unupright + -ness.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "unuprightness"?
"unuprightness" is spelled U-N-U-P-R-I-G-H-T-N-E-S-S.
What does "unuprightness" mean?
As a noun, "unuprightness" means: The quality of being unupright.
What is the origin of the word "unuprightness"?
From un- + uprightness or unupright + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list