uncountable
/ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/
"uncountable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncountable” is uncommon English (frequency #57,145 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,145
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uncountable · uncountable · English
uncountable · rank #57,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,145
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unearthly
Nearest frequency peer: unearthly (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “uncountable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- twiggy
twiggy
42,860 corpus weight
- uncountable
uncountable
42,856 corpus weight
- unearthly
unearthly
42,855 corpus weight
- unfashionab…
unfashionable
42,854 corpus weight
- unlit
unlit
42,853 corpus weight
- unpainted
unpainted
42,852 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uncountable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “uncountable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uncountable is uncommon English at frequency #57,145 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uncountable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.
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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