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unelectable

adjective, noun

unelectable is an adjective meaning “Incapable or unlikely of being elected to political office, especially due to a lack of suitable qualities or policies” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-E-L-E-C-T-A-B-L-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does unelectable mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Incapable or unlikely of being elected to political office, especially due to a lack of suitable qualities or policies.

    Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who is unable, unlikely, or unfit to be elected to office.

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

How do you pronounce unelectable?

    Unelectable 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).

    Forms of unelectable

    • more unelectable comparative
    • most unelectable superlative
    • unelectables plural

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

    How common is unelectable?

    Unelectable appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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).

    Unelectable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense incapable or unlikely of being elected:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchinéligible
    Germanunwählbar
    Portugueseinelegível
    Spanishinelegible

    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 unelectable come from?

    From un- + electable.

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