employable
"employable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“employable” is uncommon English (frequency #58,000 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,000
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Able to be employed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-employable · employable · English
employable · rank #58,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,000
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,836
- PHOTO-FINISH Encino
Nearest frequency peer: Encino (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “employable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ebbing
ebbing
42,007 corpus weight
- ecchi
ecchi
42,005 corpus weight
- eclampsia
eclampsia
42,003 corpus weight
- employable
employable
42,001 corpus weight
- Encino
Encino
42,000 corpus weight
- enquiring
enquiring
41,998 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “employable” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | employable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “employable” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
employable is uncommon English at frequency #58,000 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Able to be employed.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for employable, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From employ + -able. The correct English form is employable, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be employed.
Etymology
From employ + -able.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.