unusable
adjective, noun
unusable is spelled U-N-U-S-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is unusuable: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Unusable is an adjective meaning “Not usable”.
How many letters and syllables are in unusable?
| Letters | 8: U-N-U-S-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unusuable, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell unusable?
Unusable is spelled U-N-U-S-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for unusable in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is unusable?
Unusable appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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).
How do you pronounce unusable?
Unusable 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).
Forms of unusable
- more unusable comparative
- most unusable superlative
- unuseable
- unusables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unusable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not usable.
The toilet was unusable because it was blocked.
noun
- 1
Something that is not fit for use.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unusable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not usable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inutilisable |
| German | unbenutzbar |
| Spanish | inutilizable, inservible, inútil |
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 unusable come from?
From un- + usable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).