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Unsellable vs Unspellable - What's the difference?

unsellable | unspellable |

As adjectives the difference between unsellable and unspellable

is that unsellable is not sellable; very hard to sell while unspellable is difficult or impossible to spell.

unsellable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not sellable; very hard to sell.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 11, author=Edmund L. Andrews, title=Bailout Plan: $2.5 Trillion and a Strong U.S. Hand, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Basic questions about how the various parts of the program would work, especially those involving the unsellable mortgages that banks are holding and preventing home foreclosures, were left for another day.}}

    Synonyms

    *(not sellable) unsalable, unmerchantable, unmarketable

    Antonyms

    *(not sellable) salable, sellable, merchantable, marketable

    unspellable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.