unavailable
/ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl/adjective, noun
unavailable is spelled U-N-A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is unavailible: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 83 of all searches for the word. Unavailable is an adjective meaning “Not available”.
How many letters and syllables are in unavailable?
| Letters | 11: U-N-A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unavailible, about 40 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 unavailable?
Unavailable is spelled U-N-A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 83 of the searches for unavailable 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 unavailable?
Unavailable appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th 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 unavailable?
- /ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl/
Unavailable 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unavailable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unavailable
- more unavailable comparative
- most unavailable superlative
- unavailables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unavailable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
obsoleteUnavailing; ineffective.
- 2
Not available.
This product is unavailable at the moment, but we hope to order more by next week.
noun
- 1
USA communist who operated underground and was therefore not available for a political leadership position.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unavailable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not available:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | indisponible |
| German | unerhältlich, nicht verfügbar, nicht erhältlich, nicht erreichbar, nicht zugänglich |
| Portuguese | indisponível |
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 unavailable come from?
From un- + available.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).