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uncapable

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uncapable is spelled U-N-C-A-P-A-B-L-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, uncapable means “Not capable; incapable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uncapable?

Letters9: U-N-C-A-P-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is uncapable?

Uncapable appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

What does uncapable mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteNot capable; incapable.

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

Uncapable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not capable:

LanguageWords
Frenchincapable
Germanunfähig
Portugueseincapaz

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 uncapable come from?

From un- + capable.

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

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