appealable
adjective
appealable is an adjective meaning “That may be appealed, or sent to a higher court for judgement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-P-E-A-L-A-B-L-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does appealable mean?
adjective
- 1
That may be appealed, or sent to a higher court for judgement.
- 2
obsoleteThat may be accused or called to answer by appeal.
a criminal is appealable for manslaughter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce appealable?
Appealable 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).
Forms of appealable
- more appealable comparative
- most appealable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is appealable?
Appealable appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Appealable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that may be appealed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | susceptible de recours, appelable, susceptible d'appel |
| German | beschwerdefähig |
| Portuguese | apelável, refutável |
| Spanish | impugnable, apelable |
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 appealable come from?
From appeal + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).