user-friendly
"user-friendly" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“user-friendly” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-user-friendly · user-friendly · English
user-friendly · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | user-friendly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “user-friendly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
user-friendly is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.".
user-friendly has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From user + friendly. The correct English form is user-friendly, spelled U-S-E-R---F-R-I-E-N-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how user-friendly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the past few years, product engineers have infused the basic telephone with lots of high-tech, razzle-dazzle, and user friendly innovations such as speed dialing, automatic redial, speakerphones, cordless phones, hold buttons, and dialing memories.
Etymology
From user + friendly.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.