feasible
fea·si·ble/ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/adjective
feasible is spelled F-E-A-S-I-B-L-E, 3 syllables: fea·si·ble. The wrong spelling people search most is feasable: about 540 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Feasible is an adjective meaning “Able to be done in practice”.
How many letters and syllables are in feasible?
| Letters | 8: F-E-A-S-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: fea·si·ble |
| In writing | 5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, feasable, about 540 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 feasible?
Feasible is spelled F-E-A-S-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for feasible 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 feasible?
Feasible appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd 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 feasible?
- UK /ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/
- UK [ˈfiː.zɪ.bɫ̩]
- UK /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/
Feasible has 3 syllables, split fea·si·ble in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-feasible.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feasible
- more feasible comparative
- most feasible superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feasible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be done in practice.
His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feasible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that can be done in practice:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | faisable |
| German | durchführbar, machbar, ausführbar, realisierbar, praktikabel, tunlich |
| Portuguese | possível, factível, viável, fazível |
| Spanish | factible, asequible, dable, agible, exequible |
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 feasible come from?
From Anglo-Norman fesable, from Latin facere, Old French fesable, faisable (“doable”), from fere, faire (“to do”) + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).