changeable
/ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/adjective
changeable is spelled C-H-A-N-G-E-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is changable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Changeable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being changed”.
How many letters and syllables are in changeable?
| Letters | 10: C-H-A-N-G-E-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, changable, about 40 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 changeable?
Changeable is spelled C-H-A-N-G-E-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for changeable in either form.
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 changeable?
Changeable appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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 changeable?
- /ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Changeable has 3 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)-Vealhurl-changeable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of changeable
- more changeable comparative
- most changeable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does changeable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Capable of being changed.
- 2
Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
The weather is very changeable today: we've had bright sunshine, clouds, wind and rain in the same half-hour.
- 3
Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Changeable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | changeable , changeant |
| German | änderbar, veränderlich , wechselhaft, wandelbar |
| Portuguese | mudável, modificável, alterável , variável |
| Spanish | cambiable, cambiante , variable, tornadizo |
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 changeable come from?
From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).