comparable
com·par·a·ble/ˈkɒmpəɹəbəl/adjective, noun
comparable is spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-B-L-E, 4 syllables: com·par·a·ble. The wrong spelling people search most is comperable: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Comparable is an adjective meaning “Able to be compared (to)”.
How many letters and syllables are in comparable?
| Letters | 10: C-O-M-P-A-R-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: com·par·a·ble |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, comperable, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 comparable?
Comparable is spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-B-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for comparable 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 comparable?
Comparable appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 comparable?
- /ˈkɒmpəɹəbəl/
- [ˈkʰɒmpʰəɹəbəl] ~ [ˈkʰɒmpʰɹəbl̩]
- /kəmˈpæɹəbəl/
Comparable has 4 syllables, split com·par·a·ble in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-comparable2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-comparable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of comparable
- more comparable comparative
- most comparable superlative
- comparables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does comparable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be compared (to).
An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
- 2
Similar (to); like.
- 3
Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
- 4
Having comparative and superlative forms.
"Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.
noun
- 1
Something suitable for comparison.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate comparable?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of comparable: comp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Comparable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able to be compared:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | comparable |
| German | vergleichbar, steigerbar, komparabel, komparierbar, graduierbar |
| Portuguese | comparável |
| Spanish | comparable, equiparable |
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 comparable come from?
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).