Invaluable or valuable?
invaluable is an adjective meaning “Having great or incalculable value”; valuable is an adjective meaning “Having a great value”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) valuable is about 9.3 times as common as invaluable.
What is the difference between invaluable and valuable?
| invaluable | valuable | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective, noun |
| Meaning | Having great or incalculable value | Having a great value Estimable; deserving esteem A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value |
| Example | none recorded | valuable gemstones |
| Pronunciation | /ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/ /ɪnˈvæljəbl̩/ | /ˈvælju(ə)bl̩/ /ˈvæljəbl̩/ |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words | 32 times per million words |
Sources: invaluable and valuable in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of invaluable and valuable
invaluable
- 1
Having great or incalculable value
valuable
- 1
Having a great value
valuable gemstones
- 2
A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value
One particular valuable is a gemstone mosaic
- 3
Estimable; deserving esteem
a valuable friend; a valuable companion
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, invaluable or valuable?
invaluable appears 3.5 times per million words; valuable 32 times per million words.
invaluable 3.5 times per million wordsvaluable 32 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search invaluable vs valuable?
“invaluable vs valuable” is searched about 2,900 times a month on Google and 130 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“valuable vs invaluable”, “invaluable or valuable”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.