breakable
/ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/
"breakable" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breakable” is uncommon English (frequency #57,910 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,910
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Able to break or be broken.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breakable · breakable · English
breakable · rank #57,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,910
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH breathlessly
Nearest frequency peer: breathlessly (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “breakable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- boggy
boggy
42,097 corpus weight
- booklist
booklist
42,094 corpus weight
- Bracknell
Bracknell
42,093 corpus weight
- breakable
breakable
42,091 corpus weight
- breathlessly
breathlessly
42,090 corpus weight
- Brescia
Brescia
42,089 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “breakable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breakable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breakable is uncommon English at frequency #57,910 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for breakable, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From break + -able. The correct English form is breakable, spelled B-R-E-A-K-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to break or be broken.
- 2Fragile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breakable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The accident was also one of several since Clapham […] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.
Etymology
From break + -able.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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