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instable

adjective

instable is an adjective meaning “Exhibiting instability; unstable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-T-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does instable mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Exhibiting instability; unstable

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

Forms of instable

  • more instable comparative
  • most instable superlative

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

How common is instable?

Instable appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).