imaginable
/ɪˈmadʒɪnəbəl/adjective
imaginable is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is imagineable: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Imaginable is an adjective meaning “Able to be imagined; conceivable”.
How many letters and syllables are in imaginable?
| Letters | 10: I-M-A-G-I-N-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, imagineable, 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 imaginable?
Imaginable is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-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 imaginable 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 imaginable?
Imaginable appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 imaginable?
- UK /ɪˈmadʒɪnəbəl/
- UK /-nəbəl/
- UK /ɪˈmadʒnəbəl/
Imaginable has 5 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-imaginable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of imaginable
- more imaginable comparative
- most imaginable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does imaginable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be imagined; conceivable.
- 2
Within the realm of consideration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Imaginable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able to be imagined; conceivable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | imaginable |
| German | vorstellbar |
| Portuguese | imaginável, concebível |
| Spanish | imaginable, concebible |
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 imaginable come from?
From Middle English ymaginable, from Latin imāginābilis; equivalent to imagine + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).