explainable
"explainable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“explainable” is uncommon English (frequency #68,202 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,202
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Able to be explained or understood
Corpus desk
Index EN-explainable · explainable · English
explainable · rank #68,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,202
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expressionless
Nearest frequency peer: expressionless (+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 “explainable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ergodic
ergodic
31,805 corpus weight
- explainable
explainable
31,799 corpus weight
- expressionl…
expressionless
31,798 corpus weight
- extruder
extruder
31,797 corpus weight
- fanzine
fanzine
31,795 corpus weight
- fatalistic
fatalistic
31,793 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “explainable” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explainable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “explainable” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
explainable is uncommon English at frequency #68,202 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Able to be explained or understood".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for explainable, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From explain + -able from Latin explanō (“I flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”). The correct English form is explainable, spelled E-X-P-L-A-I-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be explained or understood
Etymology
From explain + -able from Latin explanō (“I flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”).
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.