unspellable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unspellable (comparative more unspellable, superlative most unspellable)
- Difficult or impossible to spell.
- 1928, Shaun Leslie, The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation:
- His masters, the Houyhnhnms of the unspellable and unsayable name, were more than performing horses or uncultured squires.
- 1992, Hayden Carruth, Suicides and Jazzers:
- Their children, with unpronounceable, unspellable names, came to school in tattered clothes, the boys in drab vests and the girls in more colorful ones.