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insolubility

noun

insolubility is a noun meaning “The quality of being insoluble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-O-L-U-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of insolubility is insolubilities.

What does insolubility mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being insoluble

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

How do you pronounce insolubility?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-insolubility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of insolubility

  • insolubilities plural

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

How common is insolubility?

Insolubility appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).

Insolubility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense being insoluble:

LanguageWords
Frenchinsolubilité
GermanUnlöslichkeit
Portugueseinsolubilidade
Spanishinsolubilidad

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 insolubility come from?

From Latin insolūbilitās or from insoluble + -ity.

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