Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undereducated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-e-d-u-cat-ed
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

7

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Insufficiently educated.

verb

simple past and past participle of undereducate

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English educated English undereducated From under- + educated.

Inflected Forms

more undereducated (comparative) most undereducated (superlative) under-educated (alternative)

Questions

What does undereducated mean?: Insufficiently educated.
Where does undereducated come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English educated English undereducated From under- + educated.

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