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navigability

noun

navigability is a noun meaning “The state of being navigable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-V-I-G-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of navigability is navigabilities.

What does navigability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being navigable.

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

Forms of navigability

  • navigabilities plural
  • navigatability

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

How common is navigability?

Navigability appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).

Navigability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state of being navigable:

LanguageWords
Frenchnavigabilité

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.