Sizable or sizeable?
sizable is an adjective meaning “Fairly large”; sizeable is an adjective meaning “Standard spelling of sizable”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) sizable is about as common as sizeable.
What is the difference between sizable and sizeable?
| sizable | sizeable | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | Fairly large | CanadaUKStandard spelling of sizable |
| Example | He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsaɪzəbəl/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words | 1.7 times per million words |
Sources: sizable and sizeable 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 sizable and sizeable
sizable
- 1
Fairly large
He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from
sizeable
- 1
CanadaUKStandard spelling of sizable
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, sizable or sizeable?
sizable appears 2.3 times per million words; sizeable 1.7 times per million words.
sizable 2.3 times per million wordssizeable 1.7 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 sizable vs sizeable?
“sizable vs sizeable” is searched about 10 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“sizeable vs sizable”, “sizable or sizeable”).
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