unaffordable
adjective
unaffordable is spelled U-N-A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is unafordable: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Unaffordable is an adjective meaning “Too expensive to be afforded”.
How many letters and syllables are in unaffordable?
| Letters | 12: U-N-A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,663rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unafordable, about 10 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 unaffordable?
Unaffordable is spelled U-N-A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for unaffordable 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 unaffordable?
Unaffordable appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd 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 unaffordable?
Unaffordable 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).
Forms of unaffordable
- more unaffordable comparative
- most unaffordable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unaffordable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Too expensive to be afforded.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unaffordable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense too expensive to be afforded:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inabordable, hors de prix, impayable |
| German | unbezahlbar, unerschwinglich |
| Portuguese | inacessível, proibitivo |
| Spanish | inasequible, prohibitivo |
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 unaffordable come from?
From un- + affordable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).