# amenable

> English word · Adjective · IPA /əˈmiːnəbəl/ · frequency rank #33,117

## Definitions
1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply; easily led.
3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4. Liable to the legal authority of (something).
5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

## Easily confused with
- **amiable** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amenable-vs-amiable)
- **amicable** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amenable-vs-amicable)

## Common misspellings (12)
`aemnable`, `ameanble`, `amenabble`, `amenabel`, `amenablle`, `amenalbe`, `amenbale`, `amenible`, `amennable`, `ammenable`, `amneable`, `maenable`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/amenable