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unbeatable

adjective, noun

unbeatable is spelled U-N-B-E-A-T-A-B-L-E: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unbeatable means “That cannot be beaten, defeated or overcome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unbeatable?

Letters10: U-N-B-E-A-T-A-B-L-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is unbeatable?

Unbeatable appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 unbeatable?

Unbeatable has 4 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-unbeatable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with unbeatable

Also written: un-beatable (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of unbeatable

  • un-beatable
  • unbeatables plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does unbeatable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That cannot be beaten, defeated or overcome

noun

  1. 1

    Someone or something that cannot be beaten.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Unbeatable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense that cannot be beaten, defeated or overcome:

LanguageWords
Frenchimbattable, invincible
Germanunschlagbar
Portugueseimbatível
Spanishimbatible, invencible

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 unbeatable come from?

From un- + beat + -able. Beatable is a back-formation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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