bendable
/ˈbɛndəbəl/
"bendable" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bendable” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,065 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #87,065
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bendable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɛndəbəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bendable” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bendable is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɛndəbəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,065 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bendable, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bend + -able. The correct English form is bendable, spelled B-E-N-D-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
Etymology
From bend + -able.
Antonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bendable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-N-D-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.