upskirt
/ˈʌpskəːt/
"upskirt" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“upskirt” is uncommon English (frequency #66,378 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,378
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-upskirt · upskirt · English
upskirt · rank #66,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,378
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unshaven
Nearest frequency peer: unshaven (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “upskirt”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unheated
unheated
33,627 corpus weight
- unlearned
unlearned
33,626 corpus weight
- unquenchable
unquenchable
33,625 corpus weight
- unshaven
unshaven
33,624 corpus weight
- upskirt
upskirt
33,623 corpus weight
- Usha
Usha
33,621 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “upskirt” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | upskirt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈʌpskəːt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “upskirt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
upskirt is uncommon English at frequency #66,378 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈʌpskəːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.".
No misspelling variants are generated for upskirt in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From up + skirt. The correct English form is upskirt, spelled U-P-S-K-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how upskirt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Under this general principle, victims of upskirt voyeurism that takes place in a public location such as a park or shopping mall would be left remediless under the privacy theory called intrusion into seclusion.
Yet while orthodox voyeurism exists online, most commercial ‘upskirt’ cam sites primarily draw on footage from paid sex workers.
Etymology
From up + skirt.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).