disputable
/dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/
"disputable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disputable” is an uncommon English word, ranked #94,781 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #94,781
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disputable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disputable” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for disputable is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #94,781 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for disputable in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dews-? Proto-Indo-European *dus- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Latin dis- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-Eu… The correct English form is disputable, spelled D-I-S-P-U-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dews-? Proto-Indo-European *dus- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Latin dis- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin disputo Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin disputābilislbor. English disputable Learned borrowing from Latin disputābilis. By surface analysis, dispute + -able.
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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 “disputable”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-P-U-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.