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unsayable

adjective

unsayable is spelled U-N-S-A-Y-A-B-L-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unsayable means “Not capable of being said” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unsayable?

Letters9: U-N-S-A-Y-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is unsayable?

Unsayable appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).

Forms of unsayable

  • more unsayable comparative
  • most unsayable superlative

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

What does unsayable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not capable of being said.

  2. 2

    rareNot allowed or not fit to be said.

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

Unsayable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchindicible
Spanishindecible

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 unsayable come from?

From un- + sayable.

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

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