Unfailing

Definition: Unfailing

Unfailing

Adjective

1. Not liable to failure; "a foolproof identification system"; "the unfailing sign of an amateur"; "an unfailing test".

2. Always able to supply more; "an unfailing source of good stories"; "a subject of unfailing interest".

3. Unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy".

Date "unfailing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Unfailing

Synonyms: foolproof (adj), unflagging (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Permanence	Adjective: stable; persisting; Verb: permanent; established; unchanged; (change; ); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered; unfailing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unfailing

English words defined with "unfailing": Bezoar ♦ foolproof ♦ Indefectible ♦ sure, sureness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unfailing": Fountain of the Virgin. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	An unfailing faith : a history of the Saskatchewan Dairy Industry (reference) Joshua: The Story of God's Unfailing Promise (The Abundant Life Bible Amplifier) (reference) The Most unfailing herald : Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1992 (reference) The Unfailing Promise (reference) The Unfailing Stream (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	While it uncovered our portion of hateful selfishness at home, it also revealed the heart of America as sound and fearless, and beating in confidence unfailing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unfailing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfailing" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	80	37,112

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unfailing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, objective, perfect, positive, practical, proper, pucka, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual), i pandryshuar (incommutable, unaltered, unchanged). (various references)

Arabic		‏لا يفتر, ‏لا ينضب (inexhaustible, long winded), ‏لا يخفق, ‏لا يخطئ (unerring), ‏لا يخذل, ‏صدوق (sincere, veracious), ‏ثابت (abiding, constant, enduring, fast, firm, fixed, habitual, immobile, immovable, immutable, indubitable, invariable, lasting, lingering, perpetual, settled, solid, stabile, stable, standing, stationary, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantive, unmoved), ‏دائم (abiding, biennial, ceaseless, constant, everlasting, frequent, lasting, lingering, permanent, perpetual, quinquennial, regular, standing, substantive). (various references)

Bulgarian		сигурен (bound, certain, confident, copper-bottomed, dependable, good, infallible, necessary, positive, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, solid, steady, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, undoubted, unfaltering), верен (accurate, correct, faithful, just, liege, loving, loyal, natural, okay, right, staunch, steady, sure, true, true-hearted, truthful, veracious), неизчерпаем (inexhaustible, inexhaustive), неизменен (immutable, inalterable, incommutable, invariable, permanent, rigid, standing, stationary, steady, stereotyped, unaltered, undeviating, uniform, unvaried), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references)

Chinese		百發百中 (be a crack shot, every shot hits the target, shoot with unfailing accuracy). (various references)

Czech		vìrný (close, constant, devoted, faithful, lifelike, life-like, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, trustworthy, trusty, truthful), svatý (blessed, holy, perfect, sacred, Saint, saintlike, saintly, st), spolehlivý (authoritative, dependable, dutiful, foolproof, good, reliable, reputable, safe, solid, sound, staunch, steady, sure, trustworthy), nevyèerpatelný (bottomless, inexhaustible), neochvìjný (grim, staunch, steady, unswerving, unwavering), jistý (certain, definite, mere, positive, some, steady, sure, unerring), bezpeèný (proof, safe, secure, sound, sure, unknowing). (various references)

Farsi		پایدار (Constant, Fast, Indissoluble, Inexhaustible, Permanent, Resistant, Stanch, Undying, Unflinching), کم نیامدنی , تمام نشدنی (Interminable), باوفا (Fast, Loyal). (various references)

Finnish		pettämätön (infallible), järkähtämätön (firm, immovable, inexorable, unshaken), ehtymätön (inexhaustible). (various references)

French		sûr (unerring), intarissable, inaltérable (unalterable, unmodifiable, unshaken), inépuisable (unflagging), inébranlable (unflappable, unshakable, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering), constant (unmoved, unremitting). (various references)

German		unfehlbar (absolutely, definitely, impeccable, infallible, infallibly, never failing, undeviating, unerring, unerringly, without fail), unerschöpflich (inexhaustible, inexhaustibly, tireless, tirelessly, unexhaustible, unflagging), unbezwinglich (immovable, impregnable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, unconquerable, uncontrollable), treu (abidingly, dedicated, devoted, devotedly, faithful, faithfully, innocent, loyal, loyally, respectful, stalwart, staunch, staunchly, true, truly, trusting, trustingly, trusty), nie versagend, endlos (ceaseless, endless, endlessly, everlasting, indefinitely, infinitely, interminable, interminably, never ending, perpetual, unending, unendingly). (various references)

Greek		μη αποτυγχάνων, ασφαλήσ (certain, foolproof, proof, safe, safety, secure, sure), αμείωτοσ (irreducible, unabated, undiminished, unflagging, unimpaired). (various references)

Hebrew		תמי�"י (constant, continuous, incessant, permanent, persistent), � אמן (adherent, faithful, firm, henchman, loyal, loyalist, reliable, stanch, staunch, true, trustworthy, trusty). (various references)

Hungarian		kifogyhatatlan (inexhaustible), csalhatatlan (impeccable, inerrable, infallible, sure-fire, unerring). (various references)

Italian		sicuro (absolute, assured, certain, clear, definite, reliable, safe, safety place, saved, secure, snug, steady, sure), infallibile (foolproof, inerrable, infallible, sure fire, unerring), inesauribile (inexhaustible). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		七�"�� 国 (unfailing devotion to one's country). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しちしょうほう�"く (unfailing devotion to one's country). (various references)

Manx		kinjagh (ballast, ballast of person, constant, continual, continuous, definite, incessant, invariable, persistent, regular, steady, unceasing). (various references)

Pig Latin		ailingunfay

Portuguese		que não falha (indefensible), infalível (absolute, certain, foolscap, indefectible, inerrable, infamous, unerring), inabalável (steadfast, unshakeable, unswerving), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, fortress, full blown, Hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, man-made fibers, masculine, masterful, mighty, narcissism, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, vehement, Venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), firme (compact, consistent, deep-seated, die hard, fadeless, fast, firm, fixed, hard, inflexible, iron, non-ductile, resolute, set, settled, sober, solid, stable, steadfast, steady, stern, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tight, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfaltering, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding). (various references)

Romanian		susţinut (constant, constantly, sustained, unceasing, unfailingly, unflagging, unremitting), statornic (abiding, constant, constantly, durable, lasting, permanently, rigid, settled, smooth, stable, steadfast, steadfastly, unchanging), nesecat (inexhaustible), neabãtut (firm, steadfast, unflagging, unflinching, unshaken), infailibil (certain, faultless, inerrable, infallible, unerring), inalterabil (unalterable), de nãdejde (never failing, present, reliable), credincios (as true as steel, believer, believing, devoted, devout, faithful, honest, Leal, loyal, loyally, never failing, reliable, staunch, true, true blue, trusty, unswerving), constant (abiding, constant, firm, permanent, smooth, steadfast, steady, unchanging, uniform). (various references)

Russian		верный (anchored, devoted, faithful, faithfull, loyal, right, sure-fire, tried, true, trusty, truthful, unerring), неизменный (changeless, constant, eternal, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariant, irrevocable, permanent, steady, sworn, unalterable, unaltered, unamended, unchangeable, unchanged, unvarying). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neiscrpan (inexhaustible, unwearying). (various references)

Spanish		indefectible (indefectible), fehaciente (reliable), constante (chronic, constant, equable, even, incessant, recurrent, regular, steadfast, uniform, uniformly, unwavering). (various references)

Swedish		osviklig (infallible, never failing, unerring). (various references)

Turkish		yorulmaz (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unflagging, unwearied), yanılmaz (inerrable, inerrant, infallible, never failing, unerring), güvenilir (above suspicion, authentic, bankable, calculable, certain, confidential, credible, creditable, dependable, gilt-edged, regular, reliable, responsible, right hand, secure, solid, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, straight, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, unsuspicious, worthy of credit), eksik olmaz, bitmez tükenmez (abiding, endless, inexhaustible, interminable, long standing, never ending, never failing, unending, unflagging, without end), şaşmaz (infallible, never failing, unerring, unswerving). (various references)

Ukrainian		невичерпний (exhaustless, inexhaustible, rich, wasteless), незмінний (abiding, certain, changeless, eternal, firm, fixed, hardened, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariable, non-variant, one, permanent, same, unalterable, unexceptional), надійний (calculable, certain, copper-bottomed, dependable, durable, fool-proof, never failing, reliable, responsible, safe, there, tried, trouble-free, trusty). (various references)

Vietnamese		không bao giờ cạn. (various references)

Welsh		di-lyth (unflagging), diball (infallible, sure). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	indeficiens, indeficienti. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unfailing": unfailingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unfailing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unvailing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unfailing" (pronounced unfā"ling)
5	-f ā" l i ng	failing.
4	-ā" l i ng	ailing, assailing, bailing, baling, curtailing, derailing, detailing, entailing, flailing, Grayling, hailing, inhaling, jailing, mailing, nailing, prevailing, railing, regaling, sailing, scaling, surveilling, tailing, trailing, unavailing, unveiling, veiling, wailing, whaling.
3	-l i ng	ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unwilling, waffling, waggling, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-u"
	-1 letter: inguinal.
	-2 letters: alining, failing, gainful, nailing.
	-3 letters: ailing, anilin, annuli, filing, finial, fining, fungal, guanin, ingulf, inulin, lignin, lingua, lining, lungan, nilgai, nilgau, unnail.
	-4 letters: algin, align, annul, fagin, final, fling, flung, fugal, fungi, liang, ligan, linga, linin, lungi.
	-5 letters: agin, alif, anil, fail, fain, fang, faun, fila, flag, flan, gain, gaun, glia, guan, gulf.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-u"
	+2 letters: antifouling, fulminating, unfailingly.
	+3 letters: faultfinding, fluorinating, infibulating, insufflating.
	+4 letters: faultfindings, infuriatingly.
	+5 letters: malfunctioning.
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