malleability
noun
malleability is spelled M-A-L-L-E-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: 12 letters and 6 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, malleability means “The quality or state of being malleable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of malleability is malleabilities.
How many letters and syllables are in malleability?
| Letters | 12: M-A-L-L-E-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 75,877th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is malleability?
Malleability appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 malleability?
- US
Malleability has 6 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)-Wodencafe-malleability.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of malleability
- malleabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does malleability mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being malleable.
- 2
The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
- 3
a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Malleability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the quality or state of being malleable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Schmiedbarkeit, Biegsamkeit, Geschmeidigkeit |
| Spanish | maleabilidad |
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.