fungibility
noun
fungibility is a noun meaning “The property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-G-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fungibility is fungibilities.
What does fungibility mean?
noun
- 1
The property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fungibility
- fungibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fungibility?
Fungibility appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).
Fungibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fongibilité |
| German | Fungibilität, Vertretbarkeit |
| Portuguese | fungibilidade |
| Spanish | fungibilidad |
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 fungibility come from?
From fungible + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).