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openable

adjective

openable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being opened” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-P-E-N-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does openable mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable of being opened.

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

Forms of openable

  • more openable comparative
  • most openable superlative

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

How common is openable?

Openable appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Openable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense that can be opened:

LanguageWords
Frenchouvrable

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 openable come from?

From open + -able.

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