accessible
/əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/adjective
accessible is spelled A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is accessable: about 770 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accessible is an adjective meaning “Easy of access or approach”.
How many letters and syllables are in accessible?
| Letters | 10: A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, accessable, about 770 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell accessible?
Accessible is spelled A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for accessible in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is accessible?
Accessible appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce accessible?
- US /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/
Accessible has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-accessible.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accessible
- more accessible comparative
- most accessible superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accessible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Easy of access or approach.
an accessible town or mountain
- 2
Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.
an accessible website
- 3
Easy to get along with.
- 4
Open to the influence of.
- 5
Obtainable; to be got at.
- 6
Easily understood or appreciated.
- 7
Capable of being used or seen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accessible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accessible |
| German | zugänglich , barrierefrei |
| Portuguese | acessível |
| Spanish | accesible, asequible, fácil de accesar , abordable |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does accessible come from?
First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).