countable
/ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
"countable" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“countable” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,244 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #52,244
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | countable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “countable” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for countable is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #52,244 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for countable, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able. The correct English form is countable, spelled C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- 2Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- 3Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- 4Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
Etymology
From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
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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Using “countable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.