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Underhead vs Underheard - What's the difference?

underhead | underheard |

As adjectives the difference between underhead and underheard

is that underhead is (engineering) beneath the head of a mechanical component while underheard is having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.

As a noun underhead

is (obsolete) a blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.

underhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (engineering) Beneath the head of a mechanical component.
    • (Webster 1913)

    underheard

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 17, author=Alison Owings, title=Here to Take Your Order (and Biting Their Tongues), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=One was that waitresses, among the underheard icons of America, would have many important things to say about their work. }}