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floatable

adjective, noun

floatable is an adjective meaning “That may be floated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-A-T-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does floatable mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    That may be floated.

  2. 2

    That may be floated upon.

    The river is floatable on a raft.

noun

  1. 1

    Anything that floats.

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

Forms of floatable

  • more floatable comparative
  • most floatable superlative
  • floatables plural

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

How common is floatable?

Floatable appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 floatable come from?

From float + -able.

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