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manipulable

/məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/adjective

manipulable is spelled M-A-N-I-P-U-L-A-B-L-E: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, manipulable means “Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in manipulable?

Letters11: M-A-N-I-P-U-L-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is manipulable?

Manipulable appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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 manipulable?

  • /məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-manipulable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of manipulable

  • more manipulable comparative
  • most manipulable superlative

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

What does manipulable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.

    I think we have a responsibility to emphasize to our students that law is something less: a system, manipulable like any other, for achieving political and policy ends.

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

Manipulable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation:

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 manipulable come from?

1859, from manipulate + -able.

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

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