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flammability

noun

flammability is a noun meaning “The condition of being flammable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-M-M-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flammability is flammabilities.

What does flammability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being flammable.

  2. 2

    A measure of the extent to which something is flammable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce flammability?

    Flammability has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of flammability

    • flammabilities plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is flammability?

    Flammability appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th 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).

    Flammability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense the condition of being flammable:

    LanguageWords
    GermanEntzündlichkeit

    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.