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bendable

/ˈbɛndəbəl/adjective

bendable is spelled B-E-N-D-A-B-L-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, bendable means “Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bendable?

Letters8: B-E-N-D-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bendable?

Bendable appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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 bendable?

  • /ˈbɛndəbəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bendable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bendable

  • more bendable comparative
  • most bendable superlative

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

What does bendable mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.

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

Bendable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking:

LanguageWords
Portuguesedobrável
Spanisharticulable, flexible

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 bendable come from?

From bend + -able.

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

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