irritable
/ˈɪɹɪtəbl̩/adjective
irritable is spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is irratable: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Irritable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being irritated”.
How many letters and syllables are in irritable?
| Letters | 9: I-R-R-I-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, irratable, about 60 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 irritable?
Irritable is spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-B-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for irritable 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 irritable?
Irritable appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 irritable?
- /ˈɪɹɪtəbl̩/
Irritable has 4 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-irritable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of irritable
- more irritable comparative
- most irritable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does irritable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Capable of being irritated.
- 2
Easily exasperated or excited.
an irritable old man
- 3
Responsive to stimuli.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Irritable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense capable of being irritated:
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 irritable come from?
Borrowed from French irritable, from Latin irritabilis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).