forgettable
adjective
forgettable is spelled F-O-R-G-E-T-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is forgetable: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Forgettable is an adjective meaning “Possible to be forgotten”.
How many letters and syllables are in forgettable?
| Letters | 11: F-O-R-G-E-T-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, forgetable, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 forgettable?
Forgettable is spelled F-O-R-G-E-T-T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for forgettable 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 forgettable?
Forgettable appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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 forgettable?
Forgettable has 4 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-forgettable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of forgettable
- more forgettable comparative
- most forgettable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forgettable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Possible to be forgotten.
- 2
Easily forgotten; not special or notable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forgettable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense easily forgotten:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | oubliable |
| German | vergessbar |
| Portuguese | esquecível, olvidável |
| Spanish | olvidable |
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 forgettable come from?
From forget + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).