indecipherable

Questions about indecipherable

What does indecipherable mean?

indecipherable means "not easily deciphered". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indecipherable?

indecipherable has 6 syllables: in-de-ci-phe-ra-ble. The stress falls on "phe".

What is another word for indecipherable?

Close synonyms include unclear, undecipherable, unreadable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indecipherable a common word?

indecipherable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for indecipherable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.