untameable
adjective
untameable is an adjective meaning “Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-T-A-M-E-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does untameable mean?
adjective
- 1
Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of untameable
- more untameable comparative
- most untameable superlative
- untamable
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is untameable?
Untameable appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).
Untameable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cannot be tamed:
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 untameable come from?
From un- + tame + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).