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arguable

/ˈɑɹɡjuəbl/adjective

arguable is spelled A-R-G-U-A-B-L-E: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, arguable means “That can be argued; that can be proven or strongly supported with sound logical deduction, precedent, and evidence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in arguable?

Letters8: A-R-G-U-A-B-L-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 43,663rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is arguable?

Arguable appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd 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 arguable?

  • UK /ˈɑːɡjuəbl/
  • US /ˈɑɹɡjuəbl/

Arguable 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-arguable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of arguable

  • more arguable comparative
  • most arguable superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does arguable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That can be argued; that can be proven or strongly supported with sound logical deduction, precedent, and evidence.

  2. 2

    colloquialOpen to doubt, argument or debate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Arguable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdéfendable, justifiable, soutenable (defensible in an argument), discutable (open to argument)
Germanbestreitbar (defensible in an argument)
Portugueseargumentável (defensible in an argument), discutível, debatível (open to argument)
Spanishdiscutible (open to argument)

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 arguable come from?

From argue + -able.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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