desirable
/dɪˈzaɪɹəbəl/adjective, noun
desirable is spelled D-E-S-I-R-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is desireable: about 0 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), of all searches for the word. Desirable is an adjective meaning “Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable”.
How many letters and syllables are in desirable?
| Letters | 9: D-E-S-I-R-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, desireable (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell desirable?
Desirable is spelled D-E-S-I-R-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are of the searches for desirable 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 desirable?
Desirable appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 desirable?
- UK /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/
- UK [dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbəɫ]
- US /dɪˈzaɪɹəbəl/
Desirable has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-desirable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with desirable?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as desirable from its last stressed vowel (/aɪɹəbəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of desirable
- more desirable comparative
- most desirable superlative
- desirables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does desirable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.
This applicant has almost all desirable properties.
- 2
Sexually attractive.
noun
- 1
A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Desirable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense suitable to be desired:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | souhaitable, désirable |
| German | erwünscht, wünschenswert, begehrenswert, erstrebenswert, erstrebsam |
| Portuguese | desejável |
| Spanish | deseable, conveniente |
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 desirable come from?
From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).