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demountable

adjective, noun

demountable is spelled D-E-M-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, demountable means “Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in demountable?

Letters11: D-E-M-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th 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 demountable?

Demountable appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 demountable?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_demountable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of demountable

  • more demountable comparative
  • most demountable superlative
  • demountables plural

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

What does demountable mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled.

  2. 2

    datedDesigned to be removed from the read mechanism.

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaA temporary and portable building, especially a portable classroom in a school.

    A whole row of demountables has been abandoned, the window bagged with bright orange plastic.

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

Demountable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled:

LanguageWords
Frenchdémontable
Germandemontierbar, zerlegbar
Portuguesedesmontável
Spanishdesmontable

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 demountable come from?

From demount + -able.

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

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