uncontrollable
adjective
uncontrollable is spelled U-N-C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is uncontrolable: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Uncontrollable is an adjective meaning “Not able to be controlled, contained or governed”.
How many letters and syllables are in uncontrollable?
| Letters | 14: U-N-C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, uncontrolable, about 50 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 uncontrollable?
Uncontrollable is spelled U-N-C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for uncontrollable 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 uncontrollable?
Uncontrollable appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th 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 uncontrollable?
- US
Uncontrollable 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-uncontrollable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of uncontrollable
- more uncontrollable comparative
- most uncontrollable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does uncontrollable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Uncontrollable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not able to be controlled, contained or governed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | incontrôlable |
| German | unkontrollierbar |
| Portuguese | descontrolável, incontrolável |
| Spanish | incontrolable |
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 uncontrollable come from?
From un- + controllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).