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degradability

UK /dɪˌɡɹeɪdəˈbɪlɪti/noun

degradability is a noun meaning “The condition of being degradable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-G-R-A-D-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of degradability is degradabilities.

What does degradability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being degradable.

  2. 2

    A measure of the extent to which something is degradable.

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

How do you pronounce degradability?

  • UK /dɪˌɡɹeɪdəˈbɪlɪti/

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

Forms of degradability

  • degradabilities plural

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

How common is degradability?

Degradability appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).

Degradability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense condition of being degradable:

LanguageWords
GermanAbbaubarkeit
Spanishdegradabilidad

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 degradability come from?

From degrade + -ability.

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