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available

/əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/adjective

available is spelled A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is avaliable: about 1,450 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Available is an adjective meaning “Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose”.

How many letters and syllables are in available?

Letters9: A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing191 times per million words; the 531st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched13; the most searched, avaliable, about 1,450 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 available?

Available is spelled A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E. 13 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for available in either form.

availablethe right spelling25,240 searches a month
avaliablei and l swapped1,450 searches a month
avaliblea missing i, i in place of a1,050 searches a month
avaiablea missing l850 searches a month
avaiblea missing l, a missing a790 searches a month
availblea missing a320 searches a month
availiablean extra i260 searches a month
avilablea missing a180 searches a month
availabea missing l90 searches a month

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 available?

Available appears 191 times per million words in written English, the 531st 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 available?

  • US /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/
  • US [əˈveɪ.lə.bɫ̩]
  • /əʋ.leː.bɘl/

Available 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-available.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of available

  • more available comparative
  • most available superlative

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

What does available mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.

    We have an available candidate.

  2. 2

    Readily obtainable.

    The list shows the available products in the store.

  3. 3

    Valid.

    This is an available plea.

  4. 4

    archaicHaving sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.

  5. 5

    Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.

    I have a question for you when you're available.

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

How do you abbreviate available?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of available: avail.

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

Available in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdisponible (capable of being used)
Germanverfügbar, disponibel, abkömmlich, tauglich (capable of being used)
Portuguesedisponível (capable of being used), válido (law: valid), livre (free to meet someone, speak on the telephone…)
Spanishdisponible (capable of being used)

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 available come from?

From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able.

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

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