unplayable
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
adj
That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
adj
That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
adj
That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
Example Sentences
- "Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing."
- "Apparently the Edison company failed to consider, or chose to ignore, the fact that their records were made using the “hill and dale” vertical-cut recording groove and therefore unplayable on standard (and much cheaper) gramophones […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English un- Proto-West Germanic *plehan Old English pleġan Proto-West Germanic *plegō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *plegōn Old English plegian Middle English pleyen Proto-West Germanic *plegō Old English plega Middle English pleye English play Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English playable English unplayable From un- + playable.
Inflected Forms
more unplayable (comparative)
most unplayable (superlative)