unlesbar
German, adjective/ˈʊnˌleːsbaːr/
unlesbar is spelled U-N-L-E-S-B-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 94,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unlesbar is a German adjective meaning “illegible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “so, dass man eine Handschrift nicht lesen kann”.
What does unlesbar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
illegible
(see the latter for notes)
- 2
unreadable (due to content or style)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. so, dass man eine Handschrift nicht lesen kann 2. so, dass man den Sinn eines Textes nicht erfassen kann (beispielsweise wegen Komplexität, Unstrukturiertheit, …) 3. so, dass man Daten nicht mehr lesen kann, eine Datei nicht mehr mit dem dafür vorgesehenen Programm öffnen kann oder eine verschlüsselte Nachricht nicht mehr entschlüsseln kann
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of unlesbar
- unlesbarer masculine nominative singular
- am unlesbarsten superlative
- unlesbare feminine nominative singular
- unlesbares neuter nominative singular
- unlesbaren genitive masculine singular
- unlesbarem dative masculine singular
- der unlesbare definite includes-article masculine
- die unlesbare definite feminine includes-article
- das unlesbare definite includes-article neuter
- die unlesbaren definite includes-article nominative
- des unlesbaren definite genitive includes-article
- der unlesbaren definite feminine genitive
- dem unlesbaren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce unlesbar?
- /ˈʊnˌleːsbaːr/
- /ʊnˈleːsbaːr/
- [ˈʊnleːsbaːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to unlesbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unlesbar in German?
unlesbar appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).