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governability

noun

governability is spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, governability means “The ability to be governed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of governability is governabilities.

How many letters and syllables are in governability?

Letters13: G-O-V-E-R-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is governability?

Governability appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Forms of governability

  • governabilities plural

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

What does governability mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The ability to be governed.

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

Governability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense ability to be governed:

LanguageWords
Frenchgouvernabilité
GermanRegierbarkeit
Portuguesegovernabilidade
Spanishgobernabilidad

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.

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