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unuseful

UK /ʌnˈjuːsfəl/adjective

unuseful is spelled U-N-U-S-E-F-U-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unuseful means “Not useful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unuseful?

Letters8: U-N-U-S-E-F-U-L
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is unuseful?

Unuseful appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 unuseful?

  • UK /ʌnˈjuːsfəl/

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

What rhymes with unuseful?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as unuseful from its last stressed vowel (/usfəl/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of unuseful

  • more unuseful comparative
  • most unuseful superlative

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

What does unuseful mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not useful.

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

Unuseful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not useful:

LanguageWords
Frenchinutile
Germanunnütz
Portugueseinútil
Spanishinútil

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 unuseful come from?

From un- + useful.

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

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