inaccessible
/ˌɪnəkˈsɛsɪbl̩/adjective, noun
inaccessible is spelled I-N-A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is inaccessable: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Inaccessible is an adjective meaning “Not able to be accessed; out of reach; inconvenient”.
How many letters and syllables are in inaccessible?
| Letters | 12: I-N-A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, inaccessable, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell inaccessible?
Inaccessible is spelled I-N-A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for inaccessible in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is inaccessible?
Inaccessible appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce inaccessible?
- /ˌɪnəkˈsɛsɪbl̩/
Inaccessible has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-inaccessible.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inaccessible
- more inaccessible comparative
- most inaccessible superlative
- inaccessibles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inaccessible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not able to be accessed; out of reach; inconvenient.
physically inaccessible
- 2
Not able to be reached; unattainable.
noun
- 1
An uncountable regular cardinal number that is a limit cardinal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inaccessible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inaccessible |
| German | unzugänglich , unerreichbar |
| Portuguese | inacessível |
| Spanish | inaccesible |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does inaccessible come from?
From Middle French inaccessible, from Late Latin inaccessibilis, equivalent to in- + accessible. Piecewise doublet of unaccessible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).