Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

irrecognizable

/ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ir-rec-og-niz-able
IPA: /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unable to be recognized.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets."
"[T]here remains no trace of their having ever existed—outside of course of the family names which are now preserved, though some of them in an almost irrecognizable form."
"The loamy ground on which I lay, the scattered fragments of the cairn beside me, and the rocks and junipers, were irrecognizable as if they had belonged to some other planet than ours."

Etymology

From ir- + recognizable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: ir

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/
British English: /ɪˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

irrecognisable (alternative)

Derived Forms

irrecognizability irrecognizably

Synonyms

unrecognizable

Questions

How do you pronounce irrecognizable?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/.
What does irrecognizable mean?: Unable to be recognized.
Where does irrecognizable come from?: From ir- + recognizable.

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