Unsung

Definition: Unsung

Unsung

Adjective

1. Not rendered in song; "their dirge was unsung".

2. Not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war".

3. Having value that is not acknowledged.

Date "unsung" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Synonyms: Unsung

Synonyms: obscure (adj), unappreciated (adj), unknown (adj), unvalued (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unsung

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Latency Implication	Unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold; unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed; unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unsung

Specialty definitions using "unsung": Green Man. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unsung

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	And we would scream together songs unsung (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia) Unsung, against the mold (Minority; performing artist: Green Day) And the unsung Western hero killed an Indian or three (Hymn 43; performing artist: Jethro Tull)
Movie/TV Titles	Unsung Heroes of the Wilderness (1969)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unsung

Domain	Title
Books	Unsung Sailors: The Naval Armed Guard in World War II (reference) Fly: The Unsung Hero of Twentieth Century Science (reference) Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (reference) Unsung Heroes of American Industry: Stories (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Unsung Heroes (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Unsung Heroes, Vol. 2 (reference) Unsung Heroes:Navy Corpsmen - Blood (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Unsung Sondheim (reference) Unsung Heroes (reference) Unsung Musicals II (Studio Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unsung

"Unsung" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsung" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	100	32,668

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unsung

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unsung zero	76
lyrics unsung zero	42
unsung hero	28
tab unsung zero	11
unsung	7
unsung heros	6
picture unsung zero	5
guitar tab unsung zero	3
helmet unsung	3
guitar hero rock unsung	2
helmet lyrics unsung	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsung

Language		Translations for "unsung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i palavderuar, i pakënduar. (various references)

Bulgarian		невъзпят, неизпят. (various references)

Chinese		未�"�. (various references)

Czech		nezpívaný. (various references)

Farsi		ستایش نشده , سروده نشده , خوانده نشده (Unread), بشکل اواز. (various references)

German		unbesungen. (various references)

Greek		άψαλτοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		el nem énekelt. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		縁の下の力持ち (person who does a thankless task, unsung hero). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		え�"のしたのちからもち (person who does a thankless task, unsung hero). (various references)

Pig Latin		ungunsay

Portuguese		não celebrado (uncelebrated), não cantado. (various references)

Russian		невоспетый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neopevan. (various references)

Swedish		obesjungen. (various references)

Turkish		tanınmamış (inglorious, unheard of, unnoted, unrecognized), tanınmadan, ses çıkarmadan (in silence, quietly), duyulmamış (unheard, unheard of). (various references)

Vietnamese		không được hát không được ca ngợi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unsung

Misspellings
	"Unsung" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kunlun, Nseng, Nsongo, Nsungu, Nzeng, Untung. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unsung"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unsung" (pronounced unsu"ng)
3	-s u" ng	sung.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unsung

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-n-n-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: gnus, guns, nuns, snug, sung, sunn.
	-3 letters: gnu, gun, nun, nus, sun, uns.
	-4 letters: nu, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "g-n-n-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: unslung, unstung.
	+2 letters: unguents, unsprung, unstrung.
	+3 letters: ingenuous, mundungos, mundungus, unamusing, unhousing, unhusking.
	+4 letters: groundnuts, gunrunners, lanuginous, sunburning, unassuming, unblushing, underslung, ungenerous, untrussing, untrusting.
	+5 letters: cunnilingus, gunrunnings, incongruous, ingenuously, mundunguses, outstunting, sanguineous, surmounting, surrounding, unconfusing.
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