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“conceivable” is an adjective and “conceivably” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #23,213
- “conceivable” frequency rank
- #31,117
- “conceivably” frequency rank
- 54330
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conceivable | conceivably |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Capable of being conceived or imagined. | In a conceivable manner; possibly. |
Letter map: conceivable vs conceivably
Shared letters muted; letters that set conceivable and conceivably apart highlighted. Shared run: 10.
Part-of-speech tell for conceivable / conceivably
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conceivable is anadjective and conceivablyanadverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “conceivable” becomes y in “conceivably”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54330, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
conceivable is recorded at frequency rank #23,213, classified as anadj, pronounced /kənˈsiːvəbl̩/. conceivably is at rank #31,117, tagged as anadv.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 54330, this pair ranks #141,892 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of conceivable vs conceivably
Shared letters: abceilnov. Private to "conceivable": -. Private to "conceivably": y.
"conceivable" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCCV · "conceivably" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- conceivable ← cconceivable · cnoceivable · cocneivable · concceivable · conceiavble · conceivabble · conceivabel · conceivablle
- conceivably ← cconceivably · cnoceivably · cocneivably · concceivably · conceiavbly · conceivabbly · conceivablly · conceivablyy
Frequently Asked Questions
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- Full dictionary entry for "conceivable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "conceivably" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #141,892 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #141,892 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.