divisible
[dɪˈvɪzɪbəɫ]adjective, noun
divisible is spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is divisable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Divisible is an adjective meaning “Capable of being divided or split”.
How many letters and syllables are in divisible?
| Letters | 9: D-I-V-I-S-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, divisable, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell divisible?
Divisible is spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for divisible 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 divisible?
Divisible appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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 divisible?
- UK [dɪˈvɪzɪbəɫ]
Divisible 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-divisible.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of divisible
- divisibles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does divisible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Capable of being divided or split.
Near-synonyms: separable, separatable
- 2
Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.
Just as 12 is divisible by 3, so is 48 divisible by 12.
noun
- 1
Any substance that can be divided.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Divisible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense capable of being divided:
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 divisible come from?
From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).