unprintable
/ənpɹˈɪntəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""There was poor old Wadley, of the Zoological Institute. Wadley sent a message: 'The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honor to come to their next meeting.' The answer was unprintable." "You don't say?" "Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.'""
- "Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word."
- "LabVIEW will interpret one- or two-character codes following the backslash character, as shown in Table 2.1. You can also enter unprintables by simply typing them into the string."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English print Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English printable English unprintable From un- + printable.