maintainability
"maintainability" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maintainability” is uncommon English (frequency #81,533 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,533
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The ease with which something can be maintained.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maintainability · maintainability · English
maintainability · rank #81,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,533
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mahwah
Nearest frequency peer: Mahwah (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “maintainability”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lunenburg
Lunenburg
18,476 corpus weight
- Mahwah
Mahwah
18,469 corpus weight
- maintainabi…
maintainability
18,468 corpus weight
- maleness
maleness
18,466 corpus weight
- Manistee
Manistee
18,464 corpus weight
- Maoism
Maoism
18,463 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maintainability” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintainability |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #81,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maintainability” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maintainability is uncommon English at frequency #81,533 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The ease with which something can be maintained.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for maintainability in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From maintain + -ability. The correct English form is maintainability, spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The ease with which something can be maintained.
Etymology
From maintain + -ability.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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