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comfortable

/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/adjective, noun

comfortable is spelled C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, comfortable means “Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in comfortable?

Letters11: C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing46 times per million words; the 2,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is comfortable?

Comfortable appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th 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 comfortable?

  • /ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/
  • /ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/
  • /ˈkʌmf.tə(ɹ).bəl/

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

Forms of comfortable

  • comfortabler comparative
  • more comfortable comparative
  • comfortablest superlative
  • most comfortable superlative
  • comftabul
  • comfterble
  • comftorble
  • comfortables plural

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

What does comfortable mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.

    This is the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in.

  2. 2

    In a state of comfort and content.

    What a great guestroom! I'll be quite comfortable here.

  3. 3

    Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.

  4. 4

    Amply sufficient, satisfactory.

    A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.

  5. 5

    obsoleteComforting, providing comfort; consolatory.

  6. 6

    obsoleteStrong; vigorous; valiant.

  7. 7

    obsoleteServiceable; helpful.

noun

  1. 1

    USA stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.

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

How do you abbreviate comfortable?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of comfortable: comf.

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

Comfortable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconfortable (providing physical comfort and ease)
Germankomfortabel, bequem, behaglich, kommod, gemütlich, wohlig (providing physical comfort and ease)
Portugueseconfortável (providing physical comfort and ease)
Spanishconfortable, acogedor, cómodo (providing physical comfort and ease), a gusto (in a state of comfort), suficiente (amply sufficient)

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 comfortable come from?

From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.

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

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