falsifiability
noun
falsifiability is a noun meaning “The quality of being falsifiable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-S-I-F-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of falsifiability is falsifiabilities.
What does falsifiability mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being falsifiable.
These ideas have many virtues, but falsifiability is not one of them.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce falsifiability?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-falsifiability.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of falsifiability
- falsifiabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is falsifiability?
Falsifiability appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Falsifiability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being falsifiable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | falsifiabilité |
| German | Falsifizierbarkeit, Widerlegbarkeit |
| Portuguese | falseabilidade |
| Spanish | falsabilidad |
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 falsifiability come from?
From falsifiable + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).