forgivable
adjective
forgivable is spelled F-O-R-G-I-V-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is forgiveable: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Forgivable is an adjective meaning “Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness”.
How many letters and syllables are in forgivable?
| Letters | 10: F-O-R-G-I-V-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 64,400th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, forgiveable, about 20 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 forgivable?
Forgivable is spelled F-O-R-G-I-V-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for forgivable 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 forgivable?
Forgivable appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th 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 forgivable?
- US
Forgivable 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)-Flame,_not_lame-forgivable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of forgivable
- more forgivable comparative
- most forgivable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forgivable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- 2
Of a loan, or a portion of it: such that repayment may be deferred for a period, or canceled, by the lender, if the borrower meets certain obligations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forgivable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able to be forgiven:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pardonnable, excusable, véniel |
| German | verzeihlich |
| Portuguese | perdoável |
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 forgivable come from?
From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).