unpayable
adjective
unpayable is an adjective meaning “That cannot be paid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-P-A-Y-A-B-L-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unpayable mean?
adjective
- 1
That cannot be paid.
- 2
Of a mine etc.: not able to yield profit; unprofitable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unpayable?
Unpayable has 4 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).
How common is unpayable?
Unpayable appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).
Unpayable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that cannot be paid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | impayable |
| German | unbezahlbar |
| Portuguese | impagável |
| Spanish | impagable |
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 unpayable come from?
From un- + payable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).