affordable
/əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/adjective
affordable is spelled A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is afordable: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 47 of all searches for the word. Affordable is an adjective meaning “Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced”.
How many letters and syllables are in affordable?
| Letters | 10: A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, afordable, about 140 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 affordable?
Affordable is spelled A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for affordable 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 affordable?
Affordable appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 affordable?
- UK /əˈfɔː(ɹ).də.bəl/
- US /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/
Affordable 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)-Vininn126-affordable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of affordable
- more affordable comparative
- most affordable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does affordable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.
an affordable vacation in the local area
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Affordable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able to be afforded:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abordable, à un prix abordable, pas trop cher |
| German | erschwinglich |
| Portuguese | acessível |
| Spanish | asequible |
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 affordable come from?
From afford + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).