fencible
adjective, noun
fencible is an adjective meaning “Capable of being defended” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-C-I-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fencible mean?
adjective
- 1
Capable of being defended
noun
- 1
A militia unit raised for homeland defense.
- 2
A soldier in such a unit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fencible
- fencibles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fencible?
Fencible appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Where does fencible come from?
Latin defendere (“to defend”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).