untranslatable

1. 1.

   not capable of being put into another form or style or language

   “an untranslatable idiom”

   “untranslatable art”

   Antonymstranslatable

Questions about untranslatable

What does untranslatable mean?

untranslatable means "not capable of being put into another form or style or language".

How many syllables are in untranslatable?

untranslatable has 5 syllables and divides as un-tran-sla-ta-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of untranslatable?

The recorded antonyms are translatable.

Is untranslatable a common word?

untranslatable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.