About The Word “Under”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “under”, including spelling, parts of speech, “under” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “under”

Under is spelled u-n-d-e-r and has 5 letters.


How to pronounce “under”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈʌndər/

Phonetic pronunciation: uhn-dur


How many vowels and consonants in “under”

The word “under” has 3 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “under”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “under”.


What type of word is “under”?

The word "under" can be a prepositional phrase, adverb, adjective and noun.

Meaning of the word “under”

The term "under" is a preposition that denotes a position or situation in which something is beneath or below another object, often indicating a sense of being covered, supported, or concealed by the upper entity.

Origin of the word “under”

The word 'under' has its origins in Old English, derived from the Proto-Germanic word *under, which in turn can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *ndher.

Example sentences with the word “under”

Adverb:
  1. She looked under the bed to find her lost earring.
Adjective:
  1. The under secretary of the department will be attending the meeting.
Noun:
  1. The company's management was accused of shady dealings in the under world.

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Synonyms for “under”

Other words for “under” include beneath, below, underneath, lower, at the bottom of.

Common misspellings of “under”

Onder, undar

Similar words to “under”

Asunder, blunder, ender, founder, funder, funders, launder, plunder, pounder, rounder, sounder, sunder, thunder, tuner, udder, unde, undergo, undue, anunder, chunder, daunder, dunder, fuder, hunder, lounder, nuder, runer, sunders, tunder, undear, undee, unden, underdo, underer, underfo, undern, undoer, undoers, unorder, bundler, wounder, bunder, bounder, maunder

Scrambled words derived from “under”

Ndrue, unerd, rndeu, edrun, enurd, eudnr, rednu, uedrn, dnrue, erudn, nrude, nudre, nured, rdneu, rendu, runed, drneu, ruden, neudr, dreun, erund, erdnu, runde, druen, durne

Words that rhyme with “under”

Thunder, blunder, plunder, asunder, sunder

Crossword clues for “under”

Hidden boss found in blunder (5).

Anagrams of “under”

Nuder, rendu, runed, unred

Fun facts about the word “under”

The word “under” has a Scrabble score of 6 and reads rednu in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “under”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“under” spelled in Morse code

..- -. -.. . .-. (dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “under”

Lowercase word: 117 110 100 101 114

Uppercase word: 85 78 68 69 82

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “under”

Lowercase word: 1110101 1101110 1100100 1100101 1110010

Uppercase word: 1010101 1001110 1000100 1000101 1010010

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “under”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x75 0x6E 0x64 0x65 0x72

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x55 0x4E 0x44 0x45 0x52

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “under”

Lowercase: 117 110 100 101 114

Upprcase: 85 78 68 69 82

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “under”

Lowercase: 165 156 144 145 162

Upprcase: 125 116 104 105 122

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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