uncomfortable
/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/adjective
uncomfortable is spelled U-N-C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is unconfortable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Uncomfortable is an adjective meaning “Not comfortable; causing discomfort”.
How many letters and syllables are in uncomfortable?
| Letters | 13: U-N-C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, unconfortable, 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 uncomfortable?
Uncomfortable is spelled U-N-C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for uncomfortable 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 uncomfortable?
Uncomfortable appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 uncomfortable?
- UK /ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/
- UK /ʌnˈkʌm.fə.tə.bl̩/
- US /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
Uncomfortable 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-uncomfortable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of uncomfortable
- more uncomfortable comparative
- most uncomfortable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does uncomfortable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
- 2
Experiencing discomfort physically.
- 3
Uneasy or anxious.
Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
- 4
Put off or disgusted.
It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate uncomfortable?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of uncomfortable: uncomf.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Uncomfortable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inconfortable |
| German | unbequem, ungemütlich , unbehaglich |
| Portuguese | desconfortável, incómodo, incômodo , constrangido |
| Spanish | incómodo , a disgusto , cohibido |
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 uncomfortable come from?
From un- + comfortable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).