# unwitting

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #44,551

## Definitions
1. Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
2. Unintentional.

## Etymology
From Middle English unwittinge, unwitand, from Old English unwitende (“unwitting; not knowing; unaware; unconscious”), from Proto-Germanic *unwitandz (“not knowing”), equivalent to un- + witting. Cognate with West Frisian ûnwittend, Dutch onwetend, German Low German unwetend, German unwissend and unwissentlich, Icelandic óvitandi.

## Easily confused with
- **unwittingly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/unwitting-vs-unwittingly)
- **uniting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/uniting-vs-unwitting)
- **unwilling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/unwilling-vs-unwitting)
- **unwinding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/unwinding-vs-unwitting)

## Common misspellings (12)
`nuwitting`, `uniwtting`, `unnwitting`, `unwiting`, `unwititng`, `unwittign`, `unwittingg`, `unwittinng`, `unwittnig`, `unwtiting`, `unwwitting`, `uwnitting`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/unwitting