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formability

noun

formability is a noun meaning “The quality or degree of being formable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of formability is formabilities.

What does formability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality or degree of being formable.

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

Forms of formability

  • formabilities plural

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

How common is formability?

Formability appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 formability come from?

From form + -ability.

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