accountable
/əˈkaʊntəbl̩/adjective
accountable is spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acountable: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Accountable is an adjective meaning “Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable”.
How many letters and syllables are in accountable?
| Letters | 11: A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acountable, about 30 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 accountable?
Accountable is spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for accountable 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 accountable?
Accountable appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 accountable?
- /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/
Accountable 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: En-us-accountable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accountable
- more accountable comparative
- most accountable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accountable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
Everyone is accountable to God for their conduct.
- 2
Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
- 3
Liable to be called on to render an account.
- 4
rareCapable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accountable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | responsable , expliquable |
| German | verantwortlich |
| Portuguese | responsável |
| Spanish | hacer rendir cuentas |
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 accountable come from?
From account + -able. First attested around 1400.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).