improvable
adjective
improvable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being improved” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does improvable mean?
adjective
- 1
Capable of being improved.
- 2
Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.
- 3
Impossible to prove.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of improvable
- more improvable comparative
- most improvable superlative
- improveable
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is improvable?
Improvable appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Improvable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense capable of being improved:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | améliorable, perfectible |
| Portuguese | melhorável |
| Spanish | mejorable |
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 improvable come from?
From improve + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).