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conceivability

noun

conceivability is spelled C-O-N-C-E-I-V-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conceivability means “The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of conceivability is conceivabilities.

How many letters and syllables are in conceivability?

Letters14: C-O-N-C-E-I-V-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is conceivability?

Conceivability appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).

Forms of conceivability

  • conceivabilities plural

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

What does conceivability mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed, or understood.

  2. 2

    Something that is conceivable.

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

Conceivability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the characteristic of being conceivable; the ability to be conceived, believed:

LanguageWords
GermanVorstellbarkeit
Portugueseconcetibilidade

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 conceivability come from?

From conceive + -ability.

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

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