illegibility
"illegibility" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“illegibility” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
Corpus desk
Index EN-illegibility · illegibility · English
illegibility · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illegibility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “illegibility” in English
Rare enough to double-check
illegibility is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for illegibility, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is illegibility, spelled I-L-L-E-G-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illegibility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
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This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.