illegibility
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote."
- "“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs)."
- "I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary."
- "And on the back endpaper of the Collins Clear-Type Shakespeare, a work of fatiguing illegibility, he wrote the names in large letters, as though his succession had already been settled."