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marketability

noun

marketability is a noun meaning “The likelihood that something will sell; market appeal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-R-K-E-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y and has 6 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of marketability is marketabilities.

What does marketability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The likelihood that something will sell; market appeal.

    This is a beautiful house with high marketability.

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

How do you pronounce marketability?

    Marketability 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).

    Forms of marketability

    • marketabilities plural

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

    How common is marketability?

    Marketability appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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).

    Marketability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense marketability:

    LanguageWords
    Spanishcomerciabilidad

    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 marketability come from?

    From market + -ability.

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