uncountable
/ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/
"uncountable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncountable” is an uncommon English word, ranked #57,145 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #57,145
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - So many as to be incapable of being counted.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uncountable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “uncountable” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for uncountable is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,145 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for uncountable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + countable. The correct English form is uncountable, spelled U-N-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1So many as to be incapable of being counted.
- 2Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- 3That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
Etymology
From un- + countable.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.